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I wish for programmatic access to player controls so I can test my mod code better. So I think this should be a feature that should exist for local debug builds at least. That makes CSM a pretty hefty feature for development. However, I can see more of where you're coming from then. I do *not* want...

The name vector really is misleading. They are used for a) vectors, b) positions, c) Euler angles, and d) dimensions. I wouldn't use spatial vectors for euler angles, because vector elements are usually lengths in a coordinate system, not angles. Ah, but they are used for it. Look at e.g. ObjectRef...

Autoforward/fly essentially recommends an API of programmatic access to player controls. This doesn't sound too bad in and of itself, but consider: programmatic access to the keyboard would also allow auto-digging, auto-building, and the like, which could be cheating depending on the game. Additiona...

The name vector really is misleading. They are used for a) vectors, b) positions, c) Euler angles, and d) dimensions. I wouldn't advocate for adding a new set of helpers for each possibility (Irrlicht having both vector2d and dimension2d turns out to be really annoying because you have to convert al...

I mean we already have the ability to do a lot of things to manipulate the client, just indirectly from the server. Consider: I could teleport the player out of bounds of the map. Now you might say, the server has sanity checks for such conditions, before ever sending such a packet to the client. B...

OK, this was entirely out of date with my current plans, so I rewrote it. I expect it to be ignored by most people, which is really too bad because I don't like feeling like one of three or so people that actually seems to care about the state formspecs are in and what's trying to be done about it. ...

Not the hijack this thread about (SS)CSM, but I think I'm starting to learn towards the opinion that SSCSM really isn't feasible (both in manpower and security), and that CSMs are mostly worthless and are difficult to add functionality to that don't allow cheating, so I'm starting to be of the opini...

I wonder why the vector functions are called with a dot ( vector.new() , etc.) and not like the other functions with colon ( minetest.settings:get() , item:get_meta() , meta:set_string() , etc.). And will there be a set of position functions similar to the set of vector functions? As of this releas...

I have version 5.3.0 That's probably your problem. MineClone 5 states that it only supports Minetest 5.4.1, so you have to upgrade your Minetest client. (Next time you have a problem with MineClone 5, or any other game/mod for that matter, post in the game/mod's thread. In this case, that would be ...

To quote myself: Part of the problem with [infinite simulated viewing range] is that it only previews generated terrain. If your map has a gigantic city or a huge crater from TNT blasts or a sprawling town, it would only show what the map originally looked like. For small-scale buildings and suchlik...

but would also publish a custom client that gave a better experience for the server (such as ingame help, background music, positional audio, etc). It sounds like it would be better to incorporate features into the engine rather than promulgate bunches of custom clients that will end up doing dupli...

I have considered many times about making a blog sort of thing about my work because I really like sharing what I'm working on with other people. The only thing that has prevented me is that no one really seems to care. I get the impression that very few people really read entirely through long post...

Actually, WordPad isn't a bad choice if you have no other editors; for instance, you get more than just one undo like Notepad. Configured right, it looks just like a plain text editor. It can save plain text, although it warns you every time. I had to use it for code once under... odd circumstances....

If you want the map to be absolutely identical every time, there are world games where you distribute a world with a game directory inside it: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/master/doc/lua_api.txt#L139-L148. I don't know if those can be uploaded to ContentDB, however. Not sure if that is ...

According to lua_api.txt , there's this option in the definition table for privileges: give_to_admin = true, -- Whether to grant the privilege to the server admin. -- Uses value of 'give_to_singleplayer' by default. I haven't tried, but it looks like it should do what you want if you set it to false.

The idea of the feature is to ensure that the player has a way to place a block on top of an interactable node, e.g. a chest without opening the chest instead. That said, I don't know of any way to override it since the whole idea of the feature is that it is an override in itself.

It may be true that this episode was not as interesting as the first, but I would have found it useful if I were new to Minetest. I didn't realize there was anything besides the forum and wiki for years--not GitHub, IRC, the other communities, or even lua_api.txt (it was pretty bad using the Dev Wik...

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Tue Jan 04, 2022 00:10

I'm going to make a secret game and maybe I'll present it as a new one.

Wait, did you just openly say that you'd cheat by making a game before the next jam starts?

Traditional wikis s*ck a lot. I've never heard anyone complain about Wikipedia. The main reason anyone complains about our wiki software is that registration is problematic. - It is one unique html file! - Can be sited in a server or in https://tiddlyhost.com/ - Javascript. Ah, so you are one of th...

I'm not sure if this has been brought up already but, has anyone considered scaling the sizes of everything instead of trying to increase the area? I mean I know it's going to break compatibility as well but it may be easier to implement? Not really, you'd have to use floating point, so you'd still...

You are a perfect example of being afraid. Actually, philipbenr stated that he is well-versed with the command line and is speaking for other people. You call command line "complicated" (while it is not complicated at all, as a matter of fact it is MUCH simpler than any GUI). Simplicity i...

please tell me what shader (or mod ) you are using for the shadows. They look so good! That's shadowmapping, an experimental feature that is in the current Minetest development version. It will almost certainly not make it into the 5.5 release for a few reasons ( Issue #11365 has the rationale), bu...

A little known fact: very very early versions of Minetest didn't use Perlin noise at all, but instead had simpler-random number stuff. This led to some terrain that was... well, it was interesting, at least. However, there was a feature in some versions where the terrain could be mapped to a power. ...

Nice, I really enjoyed this. This sounds like it will be a very interesting series: I'm eager for later episodes.

(As for the pronunciation of Irrlicht, I'm no German speaker either, but this is the way Wiktionary pronounces it: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... rlicht.ogg)

Voxelands isn't what you think it is. Unlike games for Minetest, which are installed in the games folder, Voxelands is a pure fork of an old version of Minetest. So, to play it, you'd have to compile the C++ from source. Since the readme doesn't detail how to do that, and the Voxelands website/forum...