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MT 5.4.0 is out so: Update 210301 Changes: more sunshine improved compatibility with other mods dependent on default (water_life, farming) compatible with MT 5.4.0 and MT 5.3.0 more sunshine One side effect is now MTG flowers and mushrooms appear, which looks like not a bad thing. I'm not sure if lo...

I'm not really a fan of the option in the new code Then why is that option still there in the new code? Who are its fans who won't let fix this mess? Paramat, of all people, who'd expect him to do the right thing and reopen the discussion about removing the bug emulation from the new code, yet it w...

I'd hoped to use the schematic files to get shapes/dimensions but moretrees uses the L-System to define trees. An universal solution could be to travel upwards from the initial node trying to recursively find connected wood/leaf nodes within some limits, that way theoretically even hand built trees...

why is it wrong to have it only as an option? If you don't like it, just don't use it. The glitch was the very first bump on the road I stumbled upon when trying to contribute. The second you come close to that steamy pile things get uphill, devs start to behave cryptic, looking funny at one anothe...

Nice one.
I bet there shouldn't be much of a problem with felling trees consisting of 300 nodes if done one at a time.

Couldn't resist the association: Trees Come Down

Thought this was a no brainer.

I've got the new version ready but it turns out 5.4 broke texture overriding. Current version at least works the same in 5.3 and 5.4 so I'm gonna have to postpone the update.
https://github.com/TheTermos/islands/archive/dev.zip

I can probably adjust the noises so it's jungle/savanna everywhere, that should take care of it.

Now the question is, is that your water definition or was it something in my water_life I maybe forgot about ? I'm gonna investigate this one The problem is that 5.3 uses the 'alpha' nodedef field which is too low in default, otherwise I could just alter the texture and leave the default definition...

If you do not need the biomes it would help water_life if there weren't any at all. Can be arranged, this mapgen seems to work allright without any biome defs. I will take a look at the hoe mod. Maybe there is an other solution. Or maybe you only override the default dirt_with_grass with your own t...

Gundul wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 06, 2021 08:30

Open the model in blender and turn it around 180 degrees :)

Seriously though, is there an easy way of importing b3d into blender yet by any chance?

It only happens to be the only element most of the time, but occasionally there can be up to three elements (one for each axis) and theoretically even more when bouncy nodes are involved.
Yes this is intentional.

The shadow of the palms even vanish if you chop them down. But they do not change with the sun. That would require changes to the engine. Those shadows are the same that are present in MTG, but there they're barely visible because textures are way too dark and the light curve is too flat. Is there ...

Update 210205

Yesterday I uploaded the wrong version by mistake, it's fixed now, for reals.

Here's a screenshot. *facepalm* Something must have gone wrong when merging, the cdb release ended up with the old version, sorry about that. Now it's reuploaded and verified. This new version does use more decorations, but custom tp's won't work out of the box as it doesn't make use of MTG nodes a...

One other small thing: when playing with my own texture pack enabled that works fine with regular Minetest, some problems arose with this mapgen, specifically with the grass textures. This is actually the interesting aspect for me, at least with this particular release. Can you elaborate what were ...

Update 210204 changes: all new textures and decorations Experimenting with light, shadow and color. The main goal of this exercise was to create the impression of the sun shining, and I think that goal has been met with some success. Recommended settings: Tone mapping - off Mip mapping - on Texture ...

testin a more aggressive color palette

Older version of default jungle texturing: https://forum.minetest.net/download/file.php?mode=view&id=23808 I like the one with vivid colors the most, maybe because it's so different than MTG where everything looks murky, flat and indistinct. palm trees of More Trees mod (so far they are probabl...

cHyper wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 26, 2021 17:32

how did you make these shadows? with shaders? or LUA?

Shaders are off, just adjusting some light curve settings from lua.
But the most important part is having decorations designed so they cast shadow.

shadows test

runs wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 24, 2021 18:41

Why does not exist as for entities?

It can't as long as scripting is located server side and player is handled client side.
Server has no way of knowing anything about client's steps.

@termos: where did you get these astounding palm trees? They are obviously not based on moretrees schematics. Made them, they're WIP but I'm not sure I can squeeze any more palmyness out of these blocks. Going to be included with the next version of Islands https://forum.minetest.net/download/file....

Almost no MTG textures left.

Depending on the complexity of your behavior, you sometimes forget something and the return true case is never happening. Yes, this is actually the tricky part, exit conditions must be well thought out and whenever in doubt add extra safety e.g. timeout. But notice that even if you end up with an i...

if _ < 2 then mobkit.clear_queue_high(self) end --if dtime since last punch is greater than 2 then refocus I recommend looking into the concept of behavior priority, it's quite an essential feature and simplifies the process a lot. Normally you would check what's the current queue priority and only...