[Mod] Compass [0.5] [compass]

[DarthNihilus]

Evergreen, actually I was comparing mediafire to the rapidshare, turbolink and such, where the waiting time is not

a 1 second difference

but 90-270 minutes + capcha + limited dl speed.

[Evergreen]

Evergreen, actually I was comparing mediafire to the rapidshare, turbolink and such, where the waiting time is not

a 1 second difference

but 90-270 minutes + capcha + limited dl speed.

Whoops, didn't notice that he wasn't using github. I think dropbox is best for this then.

[Rhys]

Amazing! Reminds me of Minecraft's Compass. Good work!

- Rhys

[BrunoMine]

On a server. He employee at each player individually?
Point to the other home player?

[TeTpaAka]

I added the ability to set your own markers where the compass should point at. See link

[bell07]

I updated the mod and uploaded them to github
https://github.com/bell07/minetest-compass

The mod is beautiful and should be maintained by minetest-mods team. I know there are some enhanced forks but I like the kiss in this case (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle) ;)

[texmex]

I updated the mod and uploaded them to github
https://github.com/bell07/minetest-compass

The mod is beautiful and should be maintained by minetest-mods team. I know there are some enhanced forks but I like the kiss in this case (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle) ;)

Excellent, bell07!

[burli]

This compass mod has one problem. I points to the current spawn point. But if you discover the map and you sleep at night, the compass will point to your last night camp and not to your home. It is pretty useless

[Andrey01]

You have nice invented!

[bell07]

I am unsure how it was before, but my version prefers the sethome coordinates. If you set your home using /sethome the compass will point to this coordinates ignoring to the beds spawn point. The priority order is 1: sethome, 2: bed-spawnpoint, 3:configured static_spawnpoint, and 4:(0,0,0)
If you need an other order, just modify the "get_spawn" function in your copy.

[burli]

Ah, ok. Didn't know that /sethome also works. But don't you need privs for /sethome?

Would be cool to be able to switch between /sethome and bed spawn point

[bell07]

My first idea was to add different compasses (with different crafting recipes). But currently not really enthusiastic to do it. May I need further textures that I cannot create.

The idea is:

Iron compass => Points to the north that means allways to the +x direction
Golden compass => World centre => 0,0,0
Mese compass => Live source that means spawnpoint (=bed)
Obsidian compass => homeland => sethome coordinates

Or do you miss the MC-Way compass, to save the first spawn position? This will be a ???-compass?
Brainstorming welcome. One restriction from my site: it should be usable without reading operation manual, like the current one.

[burli]

How about a compass that points to the coordinate there it was crafted? Then you don't need /sethome priv

[bell07]

Challenge accepted :D

Code: Select all

 $ cat settingtypes.txt 
# Where the compass should point
# default = points to the "static_spawnpoint" setting coordinates or to 0,0,0 if nothing set
# sethome = points to the players home from sethome mod, default as fallback
# beds = points to the players spawn point trough the beds mod, default as fallback
# origin = points to the individual compass origin that means the place the compass was crafted or picked first time
compass_mode (Compass Mode) string default

Try the last changes, just set the compass_mode to origin in your minetest.conf ;-)
I skipped the idea of different compasses, the compasses should have server-wide the same behaviour, so it is a server setting for now.

[burli]

origin doesn't seem to work. The compass always points to 0, 0, 0

Edit: works now.

[texmex]

With the different compass_modes now present the logical next feature I'm thinking of is either a compass item with multiple needles pointing to those different positions at the same time.

Like this:

Spoiler

[bell07]

With the different compass_modes now present the logical next feature I'm thinking of is either a compass item with multiple needles pointing to those different positions at the same time.

This should be unnecessarily complicated in implementation since you need to add an hidden Item for each combinations (8x8x8=?)
But you can just add 3x compass in origin mode to your wielded bar ;)

Spoiler

You are right, one of the next changes should be to allow different modes at the same time (stored in compass). But I am waiting for MT-0.4.16 because of some features missed in current stable I like to use.

[texmex]

But you can just add 3x compass in origin mode to your wielded bar ;)

Of course! I should think more KISS.

[bell07]

Just for reference, I renamed my fork to "ccompass" (= Calibrated compass) and started an own thread for the fork [url]athttps://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=17881[/url]. The last "compass" version before renaming (with the "origin" mode) is still available in "legacy" branch.
I did the renaming because of cleanup the beds, sethome and origin modes because of not needed anymore in my version :-)