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Stained Glass

This mod adds adaptable, fancy stained glass to Minetest. There are nine different, unique designs with two different color schemes per glass type. This mod utilizes a design that allows the glass to fit underneath arches, upside-down stairs, or nearly any sort of decoration.

Along with the stained glass, this mod has normal glass, obsidian glass, and steel bars that use the same design as the stained glass. Also, there is spiked steel railing, which works great combined with the default steel bars.

Embedding in Arches

As the first screenshot shows, the glass can be placed inside of arched windows. This mod does that by employing double high windows and other such shapes. In the following diagram, as viewed from the side, the parts with the O cannot be fit in another node, whereas the X can go inside any type of node:
There is one more node, which can be placed into a window slot from the side. This has the advantage of not having to have a larger than one node window, but the disadvantage is that nothing else can be placed in the actual position of the node. The diagram is the same as the one above, but viewed from the top. X is where the node appears to be, but O is where it actually is:
This picture should illustrate the nodes a bit better:



Notice the offset on in the back on the far right. It appears to be one node behind the rest, but in reality, it is aligned with the rest of them.

And you thought a simple stained glass mod couldn't be that complex ;-)

And now for some more screenshots!

Spoiler

Embedding stained glass in clear glass and steel railing (xpanes or glass_stained versions will both work; it depends on what you need at that particular time.):



Spiked steel railing. The railing is placed inside the cobblestone wall using the offset railing.



Normal steel railing using the xpanes version. This spiked railing connects, unlike the embeddable version.



A round window. This particular one uses the 9 by 9 (noncuple) window.

Important Info

License: MIT for code; CC BY-SA for textures
Dependencies: default, xpanes, dye

The arches used in the mod are from the mod "pkarcs", which can be found here: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=14541.

Download

Zip: https://github.com/v-rob/glass_stained/ ... master.zip
GitHub: https://github.com/v-rob/glass_stained

Please report any issues on this thread. You may make a GitHub issue, but I check the forums more than GitHub.

As always, I'm always open to suggestions.

damn nice the glass looks really good
once I do some major clean up of another mod I'll give it a go

okay, i must say... this is the finest glass i ever see of my whole life.

Looks very nice.
I especially like the spiked railing, I never got around to doing that

any chance of adding this to github?

TumeniNodes wrote:any chance of adding this to github?

What for? I don't see a need to do so.

And I'm too lazy to get an account and set up stuff :)

nice but now doors need to be twice as large to go with windows.

Windspar wrote:nice but now doors need to be twice as large to go with windows.

Huh?

Three new designs of stained glass, two color schemes for each one! See first post for updated screenshot.

(If you do not like one or more of my new designs, I will remove them.)

sod that keep them you can't please everyone
it's helps that I like them a lot and have plans brewing

I have added this mod to my own little world
and I have had no issues I love the arch’s and how the stained glass fits so well inside them
it was a bit fiddly learning how to use that side of the mod but once I worked it out
no problem what so ever

in fact I partially re-skined my house to make the round window work

Hi,

what is the trick to get a combination between parcs and your glass, as you can see in the example pictures?

greets

lilo wrote:Hi,

what is the trick to get a combination between parcs and your glass, as you can see in the example pictures?

greets

You have to use the double high glass. You place the arch, and then place the double high glass one block below it.

Ok, I can now build the stone arches with your glass, but how do you fill the bottom part of a circle as seen on the last picture?

9x9 hole the glass is screwdriver friendly

It appears I've been working on the same mod as well (I forked whatever we had deployed at linuxforks, which originally came as a zip archive). I cleaned up the code, it went from over a 1000 loc to under 500. Also I introduced more glass shapes — not just vertical double, but also L-shaped, 2x2 and 3x3 squares. Those are often needed when the frame is both small and non-rectangular, and there is no place to position enough rotated doubles. Oh and I also tweaked the yield of some recipes to better reflect the input/output ratio from other mods. E.g. if 6 glass blocks give you 16 xpanes, similar ratio should be true here.

Check it out: https://github.com/h-v-smacker/glass_stained

Yea, I've been meaning to clean up the code for a while. I'll have a look at yours sometime soon. Sorry I can't do it immediately, but I've got a few other things to do.

Update:

• I've cleaned up the code majorly (~1000 lines to ~350).
• Three more styles of glass were added with two color schemes each.
• Obsidian glass xpanes were added for 0.4.x versions.
• Spiked railing was added for the glass version instead of just xpanes.
• More glass shapes were added besides single and double. These are triple, quadruple, noncuple, and offset. See first post for details
• Edit: I also fixed Stained Glass #2 having transparency lower than every other glass, making it look wrong in the creative inventory.

Please report any compatibility issues. There shouldn't be any, but report them anyway.

Nice job on that code reduction v-rob
The new additions are nice too

looks good

Quick update: I fixed the nodeboxes on the spiked iron railing, which were too thin and didn't match up with the rest of the spiked railing.