Nodebox inventory image

[PetiAPocok]

If you register a node which drawtype is "nodebox" and don't define an inventory image, then the engine(?) generates an inventory image for the node automatically, if I understand everything correctly...
My question is, can I get that generated inventory image somehow? Is there a method for that? Or is the image stored somewhere, where I can access it?

[Nathan.S]

I think the only option right now is to take a screenshot, though there is a PR adding a feature where you could save the inventory images.

[Napiophelios]

I have used Nodebox editor for some inventory images,
but it's not ideal if you need a lot of them.

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[PetiAPocok]

I think the only option right now is to take a screenshot, though there is a PR adding a feature where you could save the inventory images.

Well, I've thought about the screenshots... But it isn't just one or two nodes...

I have used Nodebox editor for some inventory images, but it's not ideal if you need a lot of them.

Sadly I need one image for all the nodes that doesn't have a defined one...
And I have to think about the future nodes too... So it would be nice if it were something automatic.

[AiTechEye]

if im right its not images, its models showen directly but you can show them in formspec.

item_image[X,Y;W,H;item name;name;label]

https://dev.minetest.net/formspec

[PetiAPocok]

Sadly I don't want to show them in a formspec. I'm trying to upgrade the frame mod (https://github.com/minetest-mods/frame). So far everything works, but the nodes with nodebox drawtype are shown incorrectly. And I want to get the inventory image of them, so I can display it in the frame.

[AiTechEye]

you can spawn an entity with visual="wielditem", make it flat, untill there is a better solution

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minetest.register_entity("mod:item",{
	visual="wielditem",
	visual_size={x=.50,y=.50,z=0.05},
	collisionbox = {-0.2,-0.4,-0.2,0.2,0.4,0.2},
	textures={"default:fence"}
})

[TPH]

Sorry for necro-bumping 3 years later but, any update on this? I'm curious to if I could get or otherwise generate the inventory_image for an entity similarly to how nodes get an auto-generated inventory_image (for spawn eggs)

[Desour]

The generated image is only available on the client, not on the server. And, actually, it's in many cases not a generated image, but a mesh is drawn instead of a plain image.

Anyway, in your case @TPH, you can register a node with the mesh of your entity, and don't make that node place-able.

[TPH]

Thanks for the info Desour :D - didn't get a notification sorry

Oooooh ok :O thank you