Editing the Minetest menu to look something like Minecraft

[craftblox]

Hi, Everybody!
I have a question. I'm making a subgame for Minetest and i'm sick of the default menu background. After some research, i finally figured out how to change the background to a static image:

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However, this is also very boring. I decided what i REALLY want is an animated background similar to what is in Minecraft. I have not been able to figure this out :(
Any suggestions would be appreciated!

[Devy]

As far as I know, and I'm pretty sure, Minetest's main menu cloud background is an actual scene rendered using the engine (Irrlicht). If you want something different that is animated then it will require C++ and compiling Minetest from source.

[texmex]

I’m fairly convinced that the cloud background is an actual MT world with only skybox and clouds being rendered in it. That would explain why exiting to main menu from an ongoing game during game night time changes the menu cloud colors.

[Napiophelios]

I am not familiar with MC's menu, but it is possible to use an image of a static landscape
and still have the animated clouds. Take a look at VanessaE's HDX texture packs for an idea.

Here is an example image to place in the menu folder

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and here is what it looks like:

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[texmex]

Yes, that's pretty neat Napiophelios!

[paramat]

Animated custom game backgrounds are not possible currently.

[jp]

I did some work in this direction in a fork of Minetest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-aRc_vg7r4

My plan was to design an API for the game developers so they can customize the main menu background, setting their own scene, the camera position/direction, etc.

This was going to be backported to Minetest, unfortunately some "developers" decided to ban me on GitHub.

[craftblox]

Thanks for all your help, everybody!
I decided on a static landscape with a transparent sky. Minetest automatically adds their animated clouds. This is a lot better than the normal static background or the clouds by themselves
Here's what my game looks like now:

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[craftblox]

I did some work in this direction in a fork of Minetest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-aRc_vg7r4

My plan was to design an API for the game developers so they can customize the main menu background, setting their own scene, the camera position/direction, etc.

This was going to be backported to Minetest, unfortunately some "developers" decided to ban me on GitHub.

That looks awesome! Too bad you were banned, i would have loved to have had a look at it.
Good job and keep up the good work!

[Mantar]

I did some work in this direction in a fork of Minetest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-aRc_vg7r4

Looks neat. Is there some reason that code's not on your github repos? Edit: wait, do you mean you were banned from github entirely, like you can't access it anymore?

[paramat]

craftblox, if you knew what happened you would realise it is good jp was banned from the Minetest GitHub repos =)
He's not banned from the rest of GitHub no.

[Mantar]

Ah, I think I get the picture then.