[Game] Pixture

[rubenwardy]

It just happens that dump() exports Lua readable code, it's not guaranteed to stay that way.

[Sokomine]

Printing output occours pretty seldom; thus, high performance in that regard may be less important than in other areas. After all there's only a limited amount of messages you can print without hoplessly spamming the debug log beyound anything human-readable :-)

[kaadmy]

It just happens that dump() exports Lua readable code, it's not guaranteed to stay that way.

I'm using a custom function for dumping vectors now; it's much faster than minetest.serialize or dump.
This is pretty much it:

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function default.dumpvec(v)
    return v.x..":"..v.y..":"..v.z
end

[jp]

Printing output occours pretty seldom; thus, high performance in that regard may be less important than in other areas.

Of course but this is not what I was pointing out. Using dump() for the console output is appropriate; elsewhere is what I'd call a hacky way.

Interesting benchmark, though.

[kaadmy]

Interesting benchmark, though.

Change the line that says testing_enable in games/pixture/minetest.conf to true, it prints it out when you start a singleplayer world or server.
It's a mod I added in a few minutes.
Edit: typos

[necron099]

I got this error today when I tried to place a bookshelf.

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Pixture [loaded] functions
Pixture [loaded] nodes
Pixture [loaded] crafting
Pixture [loaded] tools
Pixture [loaded] furnace
Pixture [loaded] mapgen
Pixture [loaded] hud
Pixture [loaded] player
Pixture [loaded] mod:default
Pixture [loaded] mod:weather
Pixture [loaded] nodes
Pixture [loaded] plants
Pixture [loaded] craft
Pixture [loaded] mod:farming
Pixture [loaded] mod:bed
Pixture [loaded] mod:tnt
Pixture [loaded] mod:mobs
Pixture [loaded] mod:village
Pixture [loaded] jewels
Pixture [loaded] mod:jewels
Pixture [loaded] mod:item_drop
[hunger] 'singleplayer' has 20 hunger and is saturated to 39%
Pixture [loaded] mod:door
Pixture [loaded] mod:builtin_item
2015-09-10 11:22:37: ACTION[Main]:         .__               __                   __   
2015-09-10 11:22:37: ACTION[Main]:   _____ |__| ____   _____/  |_  ____   _______/  |_ 
2015-09-10 11:22:37: ACTION[Main]:  /     \|  |/    \_/ __ \   __\/ __ \ /  ___/\   __\
2015-09-10 11:22:37: ACTION[Main]: |  Y Y  \  |   |  \  ___/|  | \  ___/ \___ \  |  |  
2015-09-10 11:22:37: ACTION[Main]: |__|_|  /__|___|  /\___  >__|  \___  >____  > |__|  
2015-09-10 11:22:37: ACTION[Main]:       \/        \/     \/          \/     \/        
2015-09-10 11:22:37: ACTION[Main]: World at [/home/fred/linuxgames/minetest0413-dev/bin/../worlds/2pix]
2015-09-10 11:22:37: ACTION[Main]: Server for gameid="pixture" listening on 0.0.0.0:63553.
Got 77 craftable items
2015-09-10 11:22:39: ACTION[Server]: singleplayer [127.0.0.1] joins game. 
2015-09-10 11:22:39: ACTION[Server]: singleplayer joins game. List of players: singleplayer
2015-09-10 11:22:39: ACTION[Main]: Irrlicht: Could not open file of texture: character.png
2015-09-10 11:22:39: ACTION[Main]: Irrlicht: Could not open file of texture: character.png
2015-09-10 11:22:48: ACTION[Server]: singleplayer places node default:bookshelf at (-401,2,291)
2015-09-10 11:22:48: ACTION[Server]: facedir: 3
2015-09-10 11:22:48: ERROR[Main]: ServerError: Lua: Runtime error from mod 'default' in callback item_OnPlace(): Runtime error from mod 'default' in callback node_on_construct(): ...test0413-dev/bin/../games/pixture/mods/default/nodes.lua:447: attempt to call field 'get_slot_bg' (a nil value)
2015-09-10 11:22:48: ERROR[Main]: stack traceback:
2015-09-10 11:22:48: ERROR[Main]: 	...test0413-dev/bin/../games/pixture/mods/default/nodes.lua:447: in function <...test0413-dev/bin/../games/pixture/mods/default/nodes.lua:443>
2015-09-10 11:22:48: ERROR[Main]: 	[C]: in function 'add_node'
2015-09-10 11:22:48: ERROR[Main]: 	...linuxgames/minetest0413-dev/bin/../builtin/game/item.lua:276: in function <...linuxgames/minetest0413-dev/bin/../builtin/game/item.lua:191>
2015-09-10 11:22:48: ERROR[Main]: stack traceback:
2015-09-10 11:22:48: ERROR[Main]: 	[C]: in function 'add_node'
2015-09-10 11:22:48: ERROR[Main]: 	...linuxgames/minetest0413-dev/bin/../builtin/game/item.lua:276: in function <...linuxgames/minetest0413-dev/bin/../builtin/game/item.lua:191>
2015-09-10 11:22:48: ACTION[Server]: singleplayer leaves game. List of players: 

[kaadmy]

All right, bookshelves work in the latest version, I just forgot to change the formspec after I reworked the UI system.

[necron099]

I see that jewels spawn in chests, but are they going to mined in the future? Are the enchantments random or does it depend on the material and type of tool?

Also default:leaves are craftable into fiber what about birch and oak leaves?

Lovin' the mineturtle, at first I didn't think they were hostile, until it was too late, great drops though...

[kaadmy]

I see that jewels spawn in chests, but are they going to mined in the future?

Currently jewels can only be gotten from trading with NPCs and villlages, but my plan is to have them hidden in the Deep Forests in tree houses.

Are the enchantments random or does it depend on the material and type of tool?

It's chosen randomly from a list of possible effects.

Also default:leaves are craftable into fiber what about birch and oak leaves?

Whoops! It's a bug, it's fixed now.

Lovin' the mineturtle, at first I didn't think they were hostile, until it was too late, great drops though...

It can't be hostile, can it ;) It's got a cute smile and runs towards you >=}

[Inocudom]

There look of this subgame is very unique and its sound effects are quite impressive.

[Minetestforfun]

Wow, really great work !

[necron099]

You had mentioned disabling weather in an earlier post which causes a ton of lag for me (especially snow). But I missed the rain, so I commented out references to snowstorm in the init.lua file. It doesn't snow but it still rains, and the lag is not nearly as bad.

Also glad that when tnt explodes it doesn't cause a huge forest fire. The trees spawning in your game are pretty cool too.

[kaadmy]

You had mentioned disabling weather in an earlier post which causes a ton of lag for me (especially snow). But I missed the rain, so I commented out references to snowstorm in the init.lua file. It doesn't snow but it still rains, and the lag is not nearly as bad.

I know that snow has bad performance right now, i'll need to find a way to improve that.
I'll probably just redo the entire weather system some day.

[Minetestforfun]

An easy way to avoid lags with the weather mod/snowdrift/snowdrift_forks/etc... is to tweak the configuration file in your world directory, in my servers i used snow mod tweaked and it never lags.

Keep up the good work, your subgame is really well done !

[kaadmy]

There look of this subgame is very unique and its sound effects are quite impressive.

The art style is based of VoXus, and the sounds are mostly from one of Kenney's CC0 art packs.

[necron099]

Kaadmy, I like it that you can go into the crafting guide, armor, and inventory when accessing a chest or furnace, are you planning on making a tab to go back to the furnace or chest so I don't have close the formspec and re-open it?

[kaadmy]

I was originally going to do that, but after you see how bad MT handles formspecs, I think anybody would probably quit trying to do that :)
I could take another stab at it, but it might not work.

[stormchaser3000]

i tried this on mac os x and found nothing but desert O_o

[kaadmy]

OSX shouldn't make a difference, this has nothing system-specific, try using a different seed and or mapgen(v6 might not work, I use v7 and v5 for everything)

[Esteban]

I was one of those who got super-hyped for Voxus, so it's good to see that someone managed to make full release from the few things Kenney displayed.
What I love the most from your game are the sprites. They look so smooth and are very nice to look at!
Thanks for making this game! :D

[eduardomezencio]

Do you intend to declare Pixture ready to be bundled with minetest anytime soon? The community would definitely vote for it.

And by the way, do you have any kind of roadmap with the things that you want the game to have in the future listed?

[kaadmy]

There are many bugs/kinks that I intend to work out ASAP, like the weather and villages.
Here's some features that I plan on doing soon:

• Better player model
• Third person wielditem
• More diverse mobs
• Better weather(Right now, it's based off a fixed seed and uses the same pattern every time you start playing with the same map seed)
• Balance crafting recipes
• A storyline?

I might declare this as a release fairly soon, after some more polishing up :)

[kaadmy]

I was one of those who got super-hyped for Voxus, so it's good to see that someone managed to make full release from the few things Kenney displayed.
What I love the most from your game are the sprites. They look so smooth and are very nice to look at!
Thanks for making this game! :D

Thanks :D
I started this before Kenney cancelled his VoXus, and after he cancelled it, I figured I might as well start to go it the same direction, use a cartoon/survival style.

[eduardomezencio]

Nice.

A storyline?

I would definitely be in favor of that. I think since this game is already pretty unique in visuals, audio, crafting recipes, etc, it would fit nicely to also have a unique story behind, with some type of progression, even if very loose.

Of course you can make a release and then improve the game little by little after that..

[eduardomezencio]

By the way, are villages not spawning right now or they are just very hard to find? I even tried using the seed you recommended, but could not find one...