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by firefox
Mon Jul 10, 2023 03:58
Forum: Feature Discussion
Topic: Why don't more games provide custom player character models?
Replies: 12
Views: 1808

Re: Why don't more games provide custom player character models?

as far as i know, those are made with a 3d modeling program (blender?), and animations must also be defined somewhere. guess most people don't know how to do this. there is a model available in MTG; and while it's not very expressive in it's movement, it is compatible with most player skins you can ...
by firefox
Thu Jul 06, 2023 11:22
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Engine or Game?
Replies: 49
Views: 3687

Re: Engine or Game?

so MTG development has stopped because the core devs want to focus on the engine, which is fine, but it makes me wonder about the availability of MTG to new developers. "make it yourself" seems to be the default answer to everything, but would pull/merge request for MTG be accepted? from w...
by firefox
Sun Jun 11, 2023 08:57
Forum: Minetest-related projects
Topic: Ways Of Word - creative writing encouragement - edu project on MineTest(Single-player clone).We did creative writing 1st
Replies: 33
Views: 3661

Re: Ways Of Word - creative writing encouragement - edu project on MineTest(Single-player clone).We did creative writing

Thanks, and I really have done my best, really and truly. *All* the other contributors have used academic grade language and this bot malarkey is unfair fantasy. Check my details and check directly with your own webmaster, everything human is there, in the account. as much human as a telemarketer a...
by firefox
Sat Jun 03, 2023 11:51
Forum: Minetest-related projects
Topic: Ways Of Word - creative writing encouragement - edu project on MineTest(Single-player clone).We did creative writing 1st
Replies: 33
Views: 3661

Re: Ways Of Word - creative writing encouragement - edu project on MineTest(Single-player clone).We did creative writing

It is the later, with one proviso, it is I who wish to inspire creative writing via opening the whole idea of writing prose and poetry to 13+ individuals who would not otherwise even consider such an activity. The whole "Ways Of Word" Map Realm is an inspirational invitation to write whil...
by firefox
Fri Jun 02, 2023 13:37
Forum: Minetest-related projects
Topic: Ways Of Word - creative writing encouragement - edu project on MineTest(Single-player clone).We did creative writing 1st
Replies: 33
Views: 3661

Re: Ways Of Word - creative writing encouragement - edu project on MineTest(Single-player clone).We did creative writing

I have zero experience, nor respect for bots fella', I am merely an English teacher based in Vienna. Educate me, how would such a detailed composition be apparently *auto-generated* anyway, and specifically, why? Best! Mickey McNeill (a person) in Vienna, AT. What's the word on this. Tell me. since...
by firefox
Mon May 29, 2023 09:24
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The best name instead of Minetest is...
Replies: 219
Views: 18501

Re: The best name instead of Minetest is...

i get the impression that people want to get away from comparisons with minecraft, but this is exactly why and how i found minetest. and i guess a lot of other users have done so too. renaming the engine, now that it has become more than that, is fine by me, but that's just the background. i wouldn'...
by firefox
Mon May 29, 2023 08:57
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Ethereal [mod] Biome Poll:
Replies: 3
Views: 454

Re: Ethereal [mod] Biome Poll:

i don't know how exactly the default biomes are distributed in comparison to their ethereal counterparts but this would have to be taken into consideration when making the change, to avoid uncanny transitions. in the case that the counterparts used the same coordinates i see no problem with using th...
by firefox
Thu May 25, 2023 12:13
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Underground survival
Replies: 6
Views: 800

Re: Underground survival

iirc all MTG trees have the same growth conditions, so the actual problem would be illumination.

jungle trees probably grow the most wood, but if the cave isn't high enough you might lose out on leaves/saplings.
by firefox
Thu May 25, 2023 08:03
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The best name instead of Minetest is...
Replies: 219
Views: 18501

Re: The best name instead of Minetest is...

as long as MTG remains the default built-in game that almost every mod depends on, i see absolutely no reason to go for a different name. the name fits on the box because it is what it is. also, there are so many minecraft rip-offs with names like craftblock and the like, if we don't want to be ming...
by firefox
Wed May 24, 2023 06:43
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The best name instead of Minetest is...
Replies: 219
Views: 18501

Re: The best name instead of Minetest is...

it's not the first time we have this discussion.
and all previous attempts had failed. what is different this time?
by firefox
Sun May 21, 2023 16:22
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: [Forum] Imgur image cleanse
Replies: 10
Views: 1039

Re: [Forum] URGENT Imgur image cleanse

i now store my images on pinterest. Ah brilliant, so you've made yourself dependent on Facebook for your image hosting i was already using pinterest long before that for other purposes. why register to yet another platform when you already have one that you can use? if you happen to know a free non...
by firefox
Sat May 20, 2023 11:34
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: [Forum] Imgur image cleanse
Replies: 10
Views: 1039

Re: [Forum] URGENT Imgur image cleanse

i quit imgur many years ago, when my profile dropped into negative ranks because someone downvoted all my minetest screenshots. it stayed like this even after deleting the pictures, and with negative ranking your content gets filtered out of feeds so there was no way to get back up. even so, i saw a...
by firefox
Fri May 12, 2023 04:20
Forum: Feature Discussion
Topic: Flat Map lakes with river water source
Replies: 2
Views: 401

Re: Flat Map lakes with river water source

those lakes are at sea level so it is ocean water. rivers are generated by the valleys mapgen (dunno if capartian does it too) and filled with river water as per the biome definitions. there were no rivers before that. v7 has a flag for "rivers" but those are more like canyons that go down...
by firefox
Wed May 03, 2023 09:30
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: [Dev Diary] Al-Kimiya (discarded)
Replies: 30
Views: 5528

Re: [Dev Diary] Al-Kimiya (discarded)

last entry for this 'diary': i haven't given up yet but i don't want to do all the work of creating and maintaining a whole game just for that one singleplayer world that i may use sporadically while i'm not on Xanadu. except for the coordinate-based biome map pretty much all of my ideas have alread...
by firefox
Thu Apr 13, 2023 18:05
Forum: Servers
Topic: [Server] Xanadu
Replies: 4173
Views: 634287

Re: [Server] Xanadu

since most shops use ore lumps rather than ingots for money, the Lost And Forgotten Shop has been adjusted to use gold lumps instead of gold ingots now.
(you can find it in Emporium on the purple road.)
by firefox
Fri Mar 24, 2023 06:15
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Are you ready for the XtreemXpansion?
Replies: 41
Views: 10810

Re: Are you ready for the XtreemXpansion?

i read the title and clicked on it to find out more, but all i got is a 2-page discussion about date formats.
by firefox
Wed Mar 01, 2023 14:07
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: Game Ideas/Requests here
Replies: 28
Views: 12811

Re: Game Ideas/Requests here

I don't know if this is possible in the Minetest Engine, I just got the game yesterday and I don't know programming. I have no expectation anyone will actually make this because it's a lot of work. A gameplay based on small nodes. Nodes are 0.008 cubic metres Blocks are a coordinate/aesthetic syste...
by firefox
Tue Feb 21, 2023 11:33
Forum: Problems
Topic: trying to get back into the game - where to start?
Replies: 11
Views: 1876

Re: trying to get back into the game - where to start?

I think as an 'adventure' player (my vague description from what I know of you), you should try some new games other than MTG. For a kind of hard challenge you could try Exile, or even harder, Hades Revisited. For a more expanded and fleshed out game, I would try MeseCraft. And for something really...
by firefox
Tue Feb 21, 2023 09:41
Forum: Game Discussion
Topic: A multiplayer game based in Battle for Wesnoth
Replies: 3
Views: 1395

Re: A multiplayer game based in Battle for Wesnoth

if you want to recreate the MT game mod "capture the flag" in BfW, shouldn't this post go in the BfW forum?
(and if i remember correctly, BfW used to have a scenario which was quite similar to capture the flag, just with a football instead of a flag.)
by firefox
Mon Feb 13, 2023 14:07
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: For players & non-artists: texture preferences?
Replies: 5
Views: 1001

Re: For players & non-artists: texture preferences?

i like clean textures with small palettes, like those from snes games. border or no border usually depends on the size, i guess, whereas smaller textures like 16x usually don't have enough space for black borders. autogenerated palettes look weird because they have too many similar shades. i once re...
by firefox
Thu Feb 02, 2023 19:36
Forum: Servers
Topic: [Server] Xanadu
Replies: 4173
Views: 634287

Re: [Server] Xanadu

skiphoppy wrote:
Wed Feb 01, 2023 15:54
bitchange was on Xanadu? I don't remember ever seeing it.
no idea what it was, but i do remember the swear filter auto-kicking everyone who tried to talk about it. :P
by firefox
Thu Feb 02, 2023 12:13
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What is a grief?
Replies: 64
Views: 8917

Re: What is a grief?

Problem : Invasive building, Hinting that Dungeon Masters frequent the area (Not im my memory) in an otherwise empty landscape miles away from civilization (other than a mining operation nearby) a player chose to build a god-awful monstrosity not 100 blocks away. This is so deliberate it's not funn...
by firefox
Sun Jan 29, 2023 10:13
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Honest feedback from a newcomer
Replies: 29
Views: 4381

Re: Honest feedback from a newcomer

But what do I do if I want dinosaurs in my game right now? Wilhelmine has a bunch of mods for biomes and mobs, one of them adds dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals to the floatlands of v7 maps (or the overworld of other maps). it works with TenPlus1's mobs redo. haven't tried it yet, since i ha...
by firefox
Wed Jan 18, 2023 05:28
Forum: Problems
Topic: trying to get back into the game - where to start?
Replies: 11
Views: 1876

Re: trying to get back into the game - where to start?

I am not sure about the default settings of 'local save map' settings, but it might be you have your own area saved it's off by default and i forgot to turn it back on after installing a new system. although i'm fine with starting over. my taste has changed a bit since i started that project and i ...