Freeminer

[hoodedice]

P.S. I saw a picture of what the Main menu is supposed to look like, and I like it a lot better that the Minetest main menu; it looks more modern.

May you show me a screenshot?

May you learn to read and click links?

http://forum.freeminer.org/threads/diff ... inetest.6/

Jk, no sirius intended

[Linxx]

dirt, sand and gravel will fall off the edges (try to build something
)

why this?

[Dopium]

All in all nice package, main differences people will notice is the weather mod added to game, more grass and a moonflower. However i found snow and ice biomes right next to desert's(does not really make sense). I mean walking along found a glacier then a desert yet the other side of desert there is another glacier?

Personally i think biomes and weather types should be allocated to the position of z axis within map generation. Depending on z axis position of the player it will generate nodes to represent the climate of earth like.

E.g. If player position is 0,0,0 it should be hot with mainly jungle merging into desert's surrounding, no snow and little rain much like countries near the equator. Yet if a player is around 0,0,20000 / 0,0,-20000 or whatever it should be snowy and rainy more frequent. Anything past these points to the top/bottom of map should be ice caps and of course a gradual blend through out biomes.

Just what i think will make adventuring more interesting as player/map position then matters if you want a particular climate.

[Enke]

All in all nice package, main differences people will notice is the weather mod added to game, more grass and a moonflower. However i found snow and ice biomes right next to desert's(does not really make sense). I mean walking along found a glacier then a desert yet the other side of desert there is another glacier?

Personally i think biomes and weather types should be allocated to the position of z axis within map generation. Depending on z axis position of the player it will generate nodes to represent the climate of earth like.

E.g. If player position is 0,0,0 it should be hot with mainly jungle merging into desert's surrounding, no snow and little rain much like countries near the equator. Yet if a player is around 0,0,20000 / 0,0,-20000 or whatever it should be snowy and rainy more frequent. Anything past these points to the top/bottom of map should be ice caps and of course a gradual blend through out biomes.

Just what i think will make adventuring more interesting as player/map position then matters if you want a particular climate.

The main problem with this idea is tihat gameplay, at least mapgen-wise would become too predictale. However, making adjacent biomes not be polar opposites is a good idea.

[Linxx]

also i have preformance issues with the particles specaially with digging and weather effects

[TenPlus1]

Instead of forking MineTest why not aid in the development and help make this a better game... Have a settings menu that will allow you to tweak the game by adding/removing ingame features and maybe think about including some of the most used mods in the actual game itself...

[leetelate]

weird - half of that is in shupa! - great minds think alike - i will check out your code (i assume it is open source?) for some things like freeze and melt in a bit

my biomes are y-based (height), not z-based (north/south), and i added a few things i called areas besides biomes like hilly areas, mountainous areas, seashore areas, since they can have differing biomes based on height

desert becomes an area since the biomes are based on height, from a low non-watery jungle to the american west to the peruvian andes (very high snowy desert)

anywhere there can be lakes and rivers and they will freeze if above the snow line - i really wish there was an ice like a snow layer, not just a block

i am also limiting stuff to only the environment nodes that are in minetest-game - silly, but that is what i have done in the past and i like it

i don't like the mp design of the weather mod and redid it as a hud, but otherwise we are on the same lines

slippery? how that would work except moving the player along downhill - i wonder if that would work for my ski world better that what i have now? - i will look at that too

are you going to take out the entity limit and what about the static? - can stuff just disappear once you walk away from it like in xbox mc?


i wish i had that client with the regular minetest server - which is why i guess there is a fork

[rubenwardy]

Instead of forking MineTest why not aid in the development and help make this a better game... Have a settings menu that will allow you to tweak the game by adding/removing ingame features and maybe think about including some of the most used mods in the actual game itself...

They try to aid in the development, but they believe they are getting no where. Because of this, they have made their own fork so they can choose what goes in, instead of the bureaucracy.

[philipbenr]

What do you think?

CC0 = license

Looks good for logo to me...

[leetelate]

dirt, sand and gravel will fall off the edges (try to build something
)

why this?

ewwww! - nope - i love building sand houses because of the falling-sand difficulty, and what about my beautiful sand cliffs??? once disturbed, i have to wait for it to stop?

and now dirt is a falling node too?

sliipery is interesting....

freeminer, minetest, buildcraft and next are idea factories

[leetelate]

freeminer forum account creation says "Sorry, you must wait longer to create an account." wtf?

meh i can read the fm (freeminer) forum and that is all i needed

[hoodedice]

http://i.imgur.com/wXvXJG3.png

What do you think?

CC0 = license

Looks good for logo to me...

Looks good. Just what I had in mind for this fork. Nice work Phillip!

[Enke]

http://i.imgur.com/wXvXJG3.png

What do you think?

CC0 = license

Looks good for logo to me...

I like it!

[GingerHunter797]

Freeminer is 99% lag free, is Minetest 99% lag free???

[GingerHunter797]

Freeminer is 99% lag free, is Minetest 99% lag free???

Ok, I just tested Freeminer out on the redcrab server and I have to say it is really noticable how smooth the gameplay is! At least for me it is. I think anyone running on a low to medium spec PC should be able to tell a difference. I havent tested with singleplayer yet...

[Linxx]

for me in singleplayer frames cap at 10-20fps

Freeminer is 99% lag free, is Minetest 99% lag free???

Ok, I just tested Freeminer out on the redcrab server and I have to say it is really noticable how smooth the gameplay is! At least for me it is. I think anyone running on a low to medium spec PC should be able to tell a difference. I havent tested with singleplayer yet...

[PilzAdam]

Freeminer is 99% lag free, is Minetest 99% lag free???

Ok, I just tested Freeminer out on the redcrab server and I have to say it is really noticable how smooth the gameplay is! At least for me it is. I think anyone running on a low to medium spec PC should be able to tell a difference. I havent tested with singleplayer yet...

AFAIK the claim of freeminer to be "lag free" refers to servers, so you cant notice it while running a client only.

[xyz]

Freeminer is 99% lag free, is Minetest 99% lag free???

Ok, I just tested Freeminer out on the redcrab server and I have to say it is really noticable how smooth the gameplay is! At least for me it is. I think anyone running on a low to medium spec PC should be able to tell a difference. I havent tested with singleplayer yet...

AFAIK the claim of freeminer to be "lag free" refers to servers, so you cant notice it while running a client only.

https://github.com/freeminer/freeminer/ ... 486a004c11

[Mito551]

Also, who's working on it?

and what are differences for game-makers? except for more optimised stuff, i mean. function-wise, so to speak.

[Enke]

Also, who's working on it?

and what are differences for game-makers? except for more optimised stuff, i mean. function-wise, so to speak.

There are some new functions, and some new node definitions such as "hot, cold, melted"

To quote xyz on the freeminer forums:

We plan to include more games (not just the one we develop but also ones developed by users) into release builds.

[Inocudom]

Also, who's working on it?

and what are differences for game-makers? except for more optimised stuff, i mean. function-wise, so to speak.

There are some new functions, and some new node definitions such as "hot, cold, melted"

To quote xyz on the freeminer forums:

We plan to include more games (not just the one we develop but also ones developed by users) into release builds.

I also recommend that there be an option that toggles whether mud and sand can flow or not, just in case some players are afraid of what that might do to their creations.

[Mito551]

shouldn't this be in minetest-related projects? (now that everyone have seen the topic)
(i fully understand, that general discussion is a much better place for people to see the topic, so well done here regardless of intention.)

[proller]

Freeminer 0.4.8.2 released!

[philipbenr]

Freeminer 0.4.8.2 released!

Is there a changelog? I haven't seen one...

[Casimir]

Here: http://forum.freeminer.org/threads/free ... /#post-116