[CSM] Distancer

[Clyde]

Simple, short, Distancer.

Distancer is a Client-Side Mod, which should help you to build in Minetest.
This Mod measures distances or show's you the current Mapblock of your Position.

Commands:

• .marker | Shows you the current stored Marker.
• .marker -s | Set's the Marker to your current Position.
• .marker -m | Shows you the Distance between your current Position and the (valid) Marker.
• .marker -p | Shows you a vector of the Distance between your current Position and the (valid) Marker.
• .marker -w X,Y,Z | Writes a manual given Position to the Marker. Example: .marker -w 50,-10,100 - Set's the Marker to the Position 50,-10,100.

Other Commands:

• .show_mapblock | Shows you the Mapblocknumber of your current Position.
• .who_is_online | Lists the Names of the (online) Player.
• .distancer_version | Shows you the Version of the Mod.

Depends:
nothing

License:
GPL 3.0

How to install:
Move the folder to your clientmods directory of your minetest-folder.
Then activate the mod in your mods.conf.
Important: Not the mod.conf inside of the mod!!

Download:
Release for >= 0.4.15:
https://github.com/acmgit/distancer/archive/1.0.zip

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Only for Version 5.x.x.




Additional Commands:

• .dhud on|off | Turns all HUD's of Distancer on or off.
• .dhud_mapblock on|off | Turns the HUD for the current Mapblock on or off.
• .dhud_measure on|off | Turns the HUD to measure distances on or off.
• .dhud_waypoint on|off | Turns the HUD for the Waypoint on or off.
• .dhud_waypoint -c <color> | Changes the Color of the Waypoint to <color> (like green) or shows the available colors.
• .dhud_change | Shows you the current Position of the HUD.
• .dhud_change -r | Resets the Position of the HUD to default.
• .dhud_change -w .x,.y | Set's the Position of the HUD to the given Values. A Value of 0 left the Position unchanged.
• .dhud_speed | Shows you the current Refreshspeed of the HUD in Seconds.
• .dhud_speed Number | Changes the Refreshspeed of the HUD in Seconds. 0 turns the HUD off.

for Modwriter
With the Version 2.7 or higher, the Distancer has a API for other mods.

Var:

• dst.ver | Version Number of the loaded Distancer.
• dst.rev | Revision Number of the loaded Distancer.
• dst.name | Name of the Mod.

API:

• dst.send_pos(name, position) | name = playername, position = string like "0,0,0". Set's the Marker to the Position "x,y,z".

Download:
Source:
https://github.com/acmgit/distancer

Release for 5.x.x:
https://github.com/acmgit/distancer/archive/2.6.zip

Have Fun with it.
Greetings, Clyde.

[nrz]

Nice job,
Can you try to implement this using a CSM HUD ? It can be nice to au refresh data on screen using that

[Clyde]

Update: Command .waypoint renamed to .marker

Nice job,

Thanks a lot.

Can you try to implement this using a CSM HUD ? It can be nice to au refresh data on screen using that

Good idea, but ....
Does support the 0.4.x Clients of MT the CSM HUD?

If yes, then i do something wrong and get an Error, that i attempt to index a field, what is an nil-value ..
I tried it with:

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minetest.localplayer:hud_add(def)


and

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minetest.localplayer.hud_add(def)


Greetings, Clyde.

[Clyde]

Update:
New Release but only for MT 5.x.x.
Now the Distancer has a HUD, which can be turned on or off.

The new Commands for this Release are:

.distancer_hud_mapblock on|off
.distancer_hud_measure on|off

Greetings, Clyde.

[Clyde]

Update:
Version 2.2

Command to changes the Position of the HUD added.
.distancer_hud_change | Shows you the current Position of the HUD in Chat.
.distancer_hud_change -r | Reset's the Position of the HUD to default.
.distancer_hud_change -w .x,.y | Changes the Position of the HUD to the given Positions. A Value of 0 does nothing on the axis.
.distancer_hud_speed | Shows you the current Refreshspeed of the HUD in Seconds.
.distancer_hud_speed Number | Changes the Refreshspeed of the HUD in Seconds. 0 turns the HUD off.

All Commands now starts with .distancer_XXXX.
Update of the HUD now about minetest.after().

Greetings Clyde.

[Lone_Wolf]

Update:
Version 2.2

Command to changes the Position of the HUD added.
.distancer_hud_change | Shows you the current Position of the HUD in Chat.
.distancer_hud_change -r | Reset's the Position of the HUD to default.
.distancer_hud_change -w .x,.y | Changes the Position of the HUD to the given Positions. A Value of 0 does nothing on the axis.
.distancer_hud_speed | Shows you the current Refreshspeed of the HUD in Seconds.
.distancer_hud_speed Number | Changes the Refreshspeed of the HUD in Seconds. 0 turns the HUD off.

All Commands now starts with .distancer_XXXX.
Update of the HUD now about minetest.after().

Greetings Clyde.

It might be a good idea to make the commands shorter. It's annoying to have to sit there and type a big long cmd just to do one simple little thing.
Suggestions:

• Replace distancer_hud with dhud
• Maybe replace change with s or set (Not really needed because `change` is pretty easy to type quickly)

Nice mod btw. It'll be useful for builders planning out their projects

[Clyde]

Hello,

i like your idea with the shorter commands, it's nothing what is carved in stone, so i think, i will do it so.
Thx for your proposal, Lone_Wolf.

Greetings Clyde.

[Clyde]

Update:

Commands now shorter .dhud ....
Command .dhud on|off added. Turns all HUD's of the Distancer on or off.

Greetings. Clyde.

[Lone_Wolf]

Update:

Commands now shorter .dhud ....
Command .dhud on|off added. Turns all HUD's of the Distancer on or off.

Greetings. Clyde.

Awesome. Thanks!

[Clyde]

You're Welcome, Lone_Wolf ;-).

Update:
Hud for Waypoint added. You can see a Hud in red with <Marker> on the Screen.
Of course is this Hud on and off switchable.
.dhud_waypoint on|off

Greetings Clyde.

[Clyde]

Update: Only for MT 5.x.x
With Version 2.7, added a API to Distancer for Modwriter.

Var:

• dst.ver | Version Number of the loaded Distancer.
• dst.rev | Revision Number of the loaded Distancer.
• dst.name | Name of the Mod.

API:

• dst.send_pos(name, position) | name = playername, position = string like "0,0,0". Set's the Marker to the Position "x,y,z".

Greetings, Clyde.

[Gundul]

How to install:
Move the folder to your clientmods directory of your minetest-folder.
Then activate the mod in your mod.conf.

Hi clyde, this works pretty good. At least once I figured out it is the mods.conf and not mod.conf :)
A player in Jungle wanted to have this to find boundaries of mapblocks for his technic stuff. It took us
a while to get it to work.

Maybe it should be mentioned also that mods.conf must be in the ~/.minetest/clientmods folder
and not in the folder of the mod. Also clientmods must be enabled in the client: /client/network/clientmodding = true

[Clyde]

Hello Gundul,

of course, you're right, it's the mods.conf in the clientmods directory and not the mod.conf inside the mod.
Thanks for reporting this, i've fixed it and deactivated my little trap, sorry for this ;-).

And yes, some day's ago, i helped Pixalou with the install of this mod on linux mint and figured out, that he had the folder for the mods in /var and not in .minetest.
We was doing the same procedure and then he found a second minetest-folder in /var, there the mod was working.

Greetings, Clyde.

[Lone_Wolf]

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