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Sokomine wrote:The current state can be found on github: fiind_flat_land.

Thank you.

I got the flu, everything hurts right now. I'll report back once i've recovered.
Happy New Year, everyone.

Wow this whole thing gets quite interesting. It is seriously drawing me away from what i should be actually doing. I would test along the curve until a different height is found. The known positions with the same height then are near each other, whereas when testing line by line instead of using the...

great,
thank you, Naj.

azekill_DIABLO wrote:maybe ask for optionnal support to the author?

yes, that's probably the way to go.

Gorilla wrote:This mod is excellent. Tried it wirh te mg_villages mod and it's passable.
Some minor tweaks may need to be done (by a human builder) to fix broken roads where the mg_village overwrites the terrain from this mod.

Thank you.

I put investigation on possible interactions with mg_village on my list.

I have tried this mod and was very impressed. (See attachment) I came across one section where the road tunnel "grazed" a body of water, causing a waterfall. This is kind of cool but was wondering if it was intentional. I also noticed that blocks that are affected by gravity such as sand ...

hajo wrote:Just pave over an area of water.

How would you identify an area of water bigger than a mapchunk during map-generation?

interesting idea.
how would you decide if the area is "flat" after you measured the heights along the curve?

i have been playing around with an idea to identify some spots on the map that are rather flat. i used the built-in pathfinding function to check if 3 pathes ( between the center of the mapchunk and 3 other points) are possible. results are semi-okayish: minetest.register_on_generated(function(minp,...

thank you very much, Naj.
that helps a lot.
i'll report back, when i have implemented that.

and i don't think this really needs to be exposed as a function, it is a quite rare demand, i think.
but maybe put a little note about that in the readme, to give people a hint if they really need it.

I have been thinking about methods to get some usable information out of the heightmap. what might be helpful in this case would be Connected-component labeling : it can find blobs of connected regions. e.g. areas in the heightmap that have equal or similar height. these blobs could be further analy...

thank you, Naj.
but i phrased my question wrong,
i don't want to add a new type of sign to the game.
i want to place one of your signs (e.g. the white road sign) on the map.
So i use minetest.place_node to place it,
but i'm lost on how to put the text on this placed signs.

Happy Hollidays, btw.

I like this mod and i would like to use it in a mod of mine.

Could i get an exmple of how to
place a sign on the map and set it's text
from within another mod?

i just implemented the option to disable building on water. the results are not 100% convincing, but i leave it in for now. and thanks DIABLO, i'll keep that in mind, for future adventures in worldgen. also glad, you can live with the limitations, Otter. The hight of the buildings are theoretically ...

azekill_DIABLO wrote:Love it! +1

thanks!

i just added the option to adjust the base height for the roads (affect only the anchor-points at the mapchunk borders)

I just checked the building examples, otter sent me. they are nice, the style is matching the 2 hotter road types. but they are to large. the space where you can place buildings safely is quite limited; nothing should be placed outside the current mapchunk(at least not on the X and Z axis) and you n...

I had some problems implementing the option to raise the height of the anchor-points of the road. Turned out they were dumbness related. So now i'm back on the track. Thelowerroad is again feature-complete at version 1.2.1. I made a post for the lowercrossroads-mod: https://forum.minetest.net/viewto...

lower Crossroads =============== Based on the thelowerroad mod, this mod adds a configurable grid of lowerroads to the map. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Distributed-DeadLock/lowercrossroads/master/screenshot.png implemented features: an option to raise the height of the anchor-points of the ro...

shure, will do.

So, with the help of linuxdirk i found out that, indeed the windows-style CR/LF characters in the settingtypes.txt are causing errors on linux. So settingtypes.txt should not be in windows text-file format. Not shure what's up with the mac text-file format, it uses a sole CR as EOL character. The lu...

I recently got a bug-report for my mod. There seems to be a problem with the settingtypes.txt on linux: "017-12-02 23:12:48: ERROR[Main]: Invalid integer setting in /home/dirk/.minetest/mods/thelowerroad//settingtypes.txt "thelowerroad.sinfactor (The road wobble) int 62 40 10000 "017-...

Set "The road wobble"(sinfactor) to 1000 or higher and "The spread of the road wobble"(sinspread) to 2. That should straighten out the road, but complete straightness is not possible. So this works now? :) https://github.com/Distributed-DeadLock/thelowerroad/issues/1 Oh, sorry i...

Hi, what parameter should I change if I want a straight road ? Set "The road wobble"(sinfactor) to 1000 or higher and "The spread of the road wobble"(sinspread) to 2. That should straighten out the road, but complete straightness is not possible. & thanks Otter, i think i ca...

Some of these things seem a bit difficult ( not even shure how to build traps in MT at all) but i'll add damaged sections to my list.