let's talk about hands :)

[Linxx]

Ok so I've been playing around, triying to figure out how to make the hands like the 3d character anyway the point is do I need to make the 3d models for the hands? and if I do them, how do I put them in the game?

[Dan Duncombe]

If you just want to make it look like the end of his/her arm (square) just make a picture of it from the right angle and put it in Minetest/games/minetest_game/textures. It must be a png image. At the bottom of the textures folder is something like 'player_hand.png' or something like that. Just overwrite it.

[Zeg9]

If you just want to make it look like the end of his/her arm (square) just make a picture of it from the right angle and put it in Minetest/games/minetest_game/textures. It must be a png image. At the bottom of the textures folder is something like 'player_hand.png' or something like that. Just overwrite it.

It is actually "wieldhand.png".

[PilzAdam]

Minetest/games/minetest_game/textures

wut?

[jojoa1997]

Minetest/games/minetest_game/textures

wut?

i think he meant minetest/games/minetest_game/default/textures

[sfan5]

Minetest/games/minetest_game/textures

wut?

i think he meant minetest/games/minetest_game/default/textures

Also wrong.
The right path is <minetest dir>/games/minetest_game/mods/default/textures

[jojoa1997]

wut?

i think he meant minetest/games/minetest_game/default/textures

Also wrong.
The right path is <minetest dir>/games/minetest_game/mods/default/textures

ok ok anyways the mind of the group is better so we got it right eventually

[Linxx]

i tried with wield hand and it looks ugly! i want to do it with the actual mesurements of the character model.

[Mossmanikin]

Ok so I've been playing around, triying to figure out how to make the hands like the 3d character anyway the point is do I need to make the 3d models for the hands? and if I do them, how do I put them in the game?

If you haven't already, you could take a look at the code of this mod.

[Linxx]

Ok so I've been playing around, triying to figure out how to make the hands like the 3d character anyway the point is do I need to make the 3d models for the hands? and if I do them, how do I put them in the game?

If you haven't already, you could take a look at the code of this mod.

the hand is the same as default it works the same way.

[Linxx]

can the same thing that was done for the character model be done for the hand?

[paramat]

Just edit the "wieldhand" texture and the game automatically extrudes it into a 3D shape. Personally i can't stand the default hand and i think the hand should be a simple cubiod like the 3D character model, it's cuter and more abstract that way.

[Linxx]

hmmm can the scale be changed/edited?

[paramat]

Yeah the texture is small and surrounded by transparency, just make the texture bigger with GIMP.

[Linxx]

Yeah the texture is small and surrounded by transparency, just make the texture bigger with GIMP.

i tried it and it looks ugly...i want to make it look more rectagular and the top part i want to make it wider

[Linxx]

it looks like i can't the scale of the hands like i did with the tools... any ideas?

[paramat]

Yeah i agree the wieldhand is ugly, looks like a sliced cake, but much worse
The extrusion distance may be fixed so wider may not be possible.

[Linxx]

Yeah i agree the wieldhand is ugly, looks like a sliced cake, but much worse
The extrusion distance may be fixed so wider may not be possible.

can that be un done?

[Casimir]

This ok?

[Linxx]

thanks for the try but that's what i've been doing and it's not giving me the results i want XD

[Linxx]

so nobody knows how to change the hand aside from the wield hand i want to change how the texture wraps around it making the top wider and the side smaller.

[onpon4]

I think the default hand texture looks like a potato.

It's the biggest thing my brother complains about in Minetest, though he more hates that it doesn't look like it's attached to you.

[Linxx]

I think the default hand texture looks like a potato.

It's the biggest thing my brother complains about in Minetest, though he more hates that it doesn't look like it's attached to you.

that's part of what i want to change i want to change the position too and how big it is but i can't figure out how to do it

[paramat]

You can change the position slightly by where the hand is in it's 16x16 frame.

[Linxx]

You can change the position slightly by where the habd is in it's 16x16 frame.

Here's a pixel perfect copy of SAMII's hand, sized to the default wieldhand texture:

that's really close if only the left sides size could be reduced a bit more DX been looking furiusly through code to see if there might be a solution and all i got is a headache xD