Story screen or note for player on game creation

[ak1r4l3]

Is there a way to pass a note to a player or show a startup screen with test? Maybe a book in inventory or something that would let me create a background story for a subgame? I've searched the forums and I'm not seeing it.

[Sokomine]

Some servers show a formspec when joining. I think they do it via minetest.register_on_joinplayer. There'd still be the problem to tell further parts of the story later on. The wiki mod might be of some help here - provided it's ok for your game to place these wiki blocks wherever needed.

[ChimneySwift]

Use minetest.register_on_joinplayer and either:
- Show a formspec and set a player attribute (/metadata) when they have read it (later ignore players with this formspec)
- Add a book to their inventory:

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-- Prepare metadata
newmeta = {}
newmeta.title = "Title"
newmeta.owner = "server"
newmeta.description = "\""..newmeta.title.."\" by server"
newmeta.text = "blah blah blah"
newmeta.text_len = #newmeta.text
newmeta.page = 1
newmeta.page_max = 1

-- Create the stack
local book = ItemStack("default:book")
book:get_meta():from_table({fields = newmeta})

-- Add the stack to the inventory
local inv = player:get_inventory()
inv:add_item("main", book)

- Some other way that might add more control, such as the wiki blocks Sokomine suggested

[Linuxdirk]

Use local newmeta instead for not polluting the global namespace.