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* texture_packs.txt: Document special texturesSmallJoker2016-07-30
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* Documentation: Create texture_packs.txtrubenwardy2016-07-30
| | | | Combine texture_overrides.txt and sections of lua_api.txt
* lua_api.txt: Document how to properly clear node metadatamtango6882016-07-30
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* Main menu, lua_api.txt: Fix mod/texture pack screenshot size issuesWuzzy2016-07-27
| | | | | | Recommend mod screenshot size in lua_api.txt Adjust displayed screenshot size of texture packs Document texture pack files in lua_api.txt
* lua_api.txt: Remove tooltip checkbox[] elementJames Stevenson2016-07-21
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* HTTP lua API docs: correct some function referencesest312016-07-12
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* Builtin/profiler: Replace game profiler (#4245)Tim2016-07-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use the setting "profiler.load" to enable profiling. Other settings can be found in settingtypes.txt. * /profiler print [filter] - report statistics to in-game console * /profiler dump [filter] - report statistics to STDOUT and debug.txt * /profiler save [format [filter]] - saves statistics to a file in your worldpath * txt (default) - same treetable format as used by the dump and print commands * csv - ready for spreadsheet import * json - useful for adhoc D3 visualizations * json_pretty - line wrapped and intended json for humans * lua - serialized lua table of the profile-data, for adhoc scripts * /profiler reset - reset all gathered profile data. This can be helpful to discard of any startup measurements that often spike during loading or to get more useful min-values. [filter] allows limiting the output of the data via substring/pattern matching against the modname. Note: Serialized data structures might be subject to change with changed or added measurements. csv might be the most stable, due to flat structure. Changes to the previous version include: * Updated and extended API monitoring * Correct calculation of average (mean) values (undistorted by idleness) * Reduce instrumentation overhead. * Fix crashes related to missing parameters for the future and occasional DIV/0's. * Prevent issues caused by timetravel (overflow, timejump, NTP corrections) * Prevent modname clashes with internal names. * Measure each instrumentation individually and label based on registration order. * Labeling of ABM's and LBM's for easier classification. Giving several ABM's or LBM's the same label will treat them as one. Missing labels will be autogenerated based on name or registration order. * Configurable instrumentation and reporting. Skip e.g. builtin if you don't need it. * Profile the profiler to measure instrumentation overhead.
* Lua_api.txt: Fix description of node drop behaviourDuane2016-07-12
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* Adding minetest.clear_craftFoghrye42016-07-05
| | | | | Modifications by est31: grammar fixes in doc + error messages and a little style fix, no functional change.
* Add MapSettingsManager and new mapgen setting script API functionskwolekr2016-07-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit refactors the majority of the Mapgen settings system. - MapgenParams is now owned by MapSettingsManager, itself a part of ServerMap, instead of the EmergeManager. - New Script API functions added: core.get_mapgen_setting core.get_mapgen_setting_noiseparams, core.set_mapgen_setting, and core.set_mapgen_setting_noiseparams. - minetest.get/set_mapgen_params are deprecated by the above new functions. - It is now possible to view and modify any arbitrary mapgen setting from a mod, rather than the base MapgenParams structure. - MapgenSpecificParams has been removed.
* Remove old docs. We have VCS history anyways. (#4266)Pavel Puchkin2016-07-03
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* Player: New get_look, set_look APIraymoo2016-06-24
| | | | Deprecate get_look / set_look pitch / yaw
* Builtin/game/item: Add `place_param2` nodedef fieldAuke Kok2016-06-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This allows a nodedef to specify a fixed value for param2 to be used for all normal placements. There are several uses for this: - nodes that require param2 to be set to a non-zero value for internal mod use. E.g. leafdecay could use this to detect that leaves are played by players. - force wallmounted or facedir value at placement at placement This overrides any player look direction or other on-the-fly param2 setting during placement.
* Server: Add reason for leave to `on_leaveplayer` callbacksDiego Martinez2016-06-11
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* Lua_api.txt: Split long lines. Capitalise 'Biome API'. Minor editsparamat2016-06-07
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* Biome API: Add per-biome riverbed material and depthparamat2016-06-05
| | | | | | Mgvalleys: Remove riverbed sand placement from base terrain generation Riverbed material placement moved to MapgenBasic::generateBiomes() Document fields and add note that the biome API is still unstable
* PcgRandom: Fix/improve documentationkwolekr2016-06-04
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* Add colored text (not only colored chat).Ekdohibs2016-05-31
| | | | | Add documentation, move files to a proper place and avoid memory leaks. Make it work with most kind of texts, and allow backgrounds too.
* Add minetest.check_password_entry callbackest312016-05-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Gives a convenient way to check a player's password. This entirely bypasses the SRP protocol, so should be used with great care. This function is not intended to be used in-game, but solely by external protocols, where no authentication of the minetest engine is provided, and also only for protocols, in which the user already gives the server the plaintext password. Examples for good use are the classical http form, or irc, an example for a bad use is a password change dialog inside formspec. Users should be aware that they lose the advantages of the SRP protocol if they enter their passwords for servers outside the normal entry box, like in in-game formspec menus, or through irc /msg s, This patch also fixes an auth.h mistake which has mixed up the order of params inside the decode_srp_verifier_and_salt function. Zeno-: Added errorstream message for invalid format when I committed
* Particles: Add option to remove particles on collisionAuke Kok2016-05-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adds the particle option `collision_removal = bool` Some particles are hard to use right now since they either go through solid blocks (without collision detection), and with collision detection enabled they (e.g. raindrops) would just stop dead on the floor and sit there until they expire, or worse, scrape along a wall or ceiling. We can solve the problem by adding a boolean flag that tells the particle to be removed if it ever collides with something. This will make it easier to add rain that doesn't fall through your roof or stick on the top of it. Or clouds and smoke that don't go through trees. Particles that collide with this flag are marked expired unconditionally, causing them to be treated like normal expired particles and cleaned up normally. Documentation is adjusted accordingly. An added bonus of this patch is that particles can potentially collide many times with nodes, and this reduces the amount of collisions to 1 (max), which may end up reducing particle load on the client.
* Add base64 encoding and decoding to the lua api. (#3919)red-0012016-05-27
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* Bump version to 0.4.14sfan52016-05-15
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* Lua_api.txt: Fix documentation for facedir rotationparamat2016-05-10
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* Add [resize texture modifier Resizes the texture to the given dimensions.SmallJoker2016-05-09
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* Lua_api.txt: Add warnings of l-system lighting bugparamat2016-05-06
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* Builtin: Add basic_privs settingrubenwardy2016-04-28
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* tile.cpp: Automatically upscale lower resolution textureSmallJoker2016-04-25
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* Hud: Fix offset being ignored by inventory barrubenwardy2016-04-10
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* Document hpchange callback ordering thing (#3981)raymoo2016-04-10
| | | | | | | | | Document hpchange callback ordering thing Callbacks registered by register_on_player_hpchange are ordered so that non-modifiers are called after modifiers are called. Credit to @TeTpaAka who mentioned this previously-undocumented feature in #3799. See also commit aa13baa30a45b0f834c23bd5c0407895eb8ec0ee "Add minetest.register_on_player_hpchange"
* Clearer explanation of [colorize with alphaSamuel Sieb2016-04-07
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* Add an option to colorize to respect the destination alphaSamuel Sieb2016-04-03
| | | | Also, rework the colorizing code to be more efficient.
* lua_api.txt: improve vector documentationest312016-03-19
| | | | | Before it rendered very badly in HTML. Also point out what vector.round does.
* Allow nodes to specify which sides to connect to.Auke Kok2016-03-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | NDT_CONNECTED attempts to connect to any side of nodes that it can connect to, which is troublesome for FACEDIR type nodes that generally may only have one usable face, and can be rotated. We introduce a node parameter `connect_sides` that is valid for any node type. If specified, it lists faces of the node (in "top", "bottom", "front", "left", "back", "right", form, as array) that connecting nodeboxes can connect to. "front" corresponds to the south facing side of a node with facedir = 0. If the node is rotatable using *simple* FACEDIR, then the attached face is properly rotated before checking. This allows e.g. a chest to be attached to only from the rear side.
* Nodebox: Allow nodeboxes to "connect"Auke Kok2016-03-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We introduce a new nodebox type "connected", and allow these nodes to have optional nodeboxes that connect it to other connecting nodeboxes. This is all done at scenedraw time in the client. The client will inspect the surrounding nodes and if they are to be connected to, it will draw the appropriate connecting nodeboxes to make those connections. In the node_box definition, we have to specify separate nodeboxes for each valid connection. This allows us to make nodes that connect only horizontally (the common case) by providing optional nodeboxes for +x, -x, +z, -z directions. Or this allows us to make wires that can connect up and down, by providing nodeboxes that connect it up and down (+y, -y) as well. The optional nodeboxes can be arrays. They are named "connect_top, "connect_bottom", "connect_front", "connect_left", "connect_back" and "connect_right". Here, "front" means the south facing side of the node that has facedir = 0. Additionally, a "fixed" nodebox list present will always be drawn, so one can make a central post, for instance. This "fixed" nodebox can be omitted, or it can be an array of nodeboxes. Collision boxes are also updated in exactly the same fashion, which allows you to walk over the upper extremities of the individual node boxes, or stand really close to them. You can also walk up node noxes that are small in height, all as expected, and unlike the NDT_FENCELIKE nodes. I've posted a screenshot demonstrating the flexibility at http://i.imgur.com/zaJq8jo.png In the screenshot, all connecting nodes are of this new subtype. Transparent textures render incorrectly, Which I don't think is related to this text, as other nodeboxes also have issues with this. A protocol bump is performed in order to be able to send older clients a nodeblock that is usable for them. In order to avoid abuse of users we send older clients a "full-size" node, so that it's impossible for them to try and walk through a fence or wall that's created in this fashion. This was tested with a pre-bump client connected against a server running the new protocol. These nodes connect to other nodes, and you can select which ones those are by specifying node names (or group names) in the connects_to string array: connects_to = { "group:fence", "default:wood" } By default, nodes do not connect to anything, allowing you to create nodes that always have to be paired in order to connect. lua_api.txt is updated to reflect the extension to the node_box API. Example lua code needed to generate these nodes can be found here: https://gist.github.com/sofar/b381c8c192c8e53e6062
* Add consistent monotonic day counter - get_day_count()Auke Kok2016-03-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I've written several experimental bits of code that revolve around the need for a consistent calendar, but implementing one is extremely hard in mods due to time changes and mods overriding core.get_timeofday(), which will conflict. The second part of the problem is that doing this from a mod requires constant maintenance of a settings file. An implementation in core is trivial, however, and solves all of these problems at virtually no cost: No extra branches in server steps, and a single branch when minetest.set_time_of_day(), which is entirely reasonable. We store the day_count value in env_meta.txt. The use case is obvious: This change allows mods to create an actual virtual calendar, or properly account for seasonal changes, etc.. We add a "/days" chatcommand that displays the current day count. No permissions are needed. It can only retrieve the day count, not modify it.
* Add AreaStore custom ID APIShadowNinja2016-03-07
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* Implement AreaStore serializationShadowNinja2016-03-07
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* Simplify AreaStore ID managementShadowNinja2016-03-07
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* Add minetest.register_lbm() to run code on block load onlyest312016-03-07
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* Decoration API: Allow force_placement of simple decorationsparamat2016-03-04
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* Require minetest.request_http_api to be called from the mod's main scopeJeija2016-03-03
| | | | Fixes #3764
* Fix a mistake in the world format documentationAleksey Vorona2016-03-03
| | | | | | Fixed a minor mistake that made it appear as if the inventory is serialized multiple times - once per each variable. In fact it is serialized once per each node.
* Add Lua interface to HTTPFetchRequestJeija2016-02-22
| | | | | | | | | | This allows mods to perform both asynchronous and synchronous HTTP requests. Mods are only granted access to HTTP APIs if either mod security is disabled or if they are whitelisted in any of the the secure.http_mods and secure.trusted_mods settings. Adds httpfetch_caller_alloc_secure to generate random, non-predictable caller IDs so that lua mods cannot spy on each others HTTP queries.
* Require request_insecure_environment to be called from the mod's main scopeShadowNinja2016-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously you could steal a secure environment from a trusted mod by wrapping request_insecure_environment with some code like this: local rie_cp = minetest.request_insecure_environment local stolen_ie function minetest.request_insecure_environment() local ie = rie_cp() stolen_ie = stolen_ie or ie return ie end
* Initialize facedir and wallmounted tables only once.Diego Martinez2016-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | This makes the functions a bit faster since they don't have to recreate the tables every invocation, and makes the code more readable. Also, document `wallmounted_to_dir`. The function was implemented but not documented in `lua_api.txt`.
* Add '/clearobjects quick'Kahrl2016-02-11
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* New timer design.Auke Kok2016-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I could honestly not make much sense of the timer implementation that was here. Instead I've implemented the type of timer algorithm that I've used before, and tested it instead. The concept is extremely simple: all timers are put in an ordered list. We check every server tick if any of the timers have elapsed, and execute the function associated with this timer. We know that many timers by themselves cause new timers to be added to this list, so we iterate *backwards* over the timer list. This means that new timers being added while timers are being executed, can never be executed in the same function pass, as they are always appended to the table *after* the end of the table, which we will never reach in the current pass over all the table elements. We switch time keeping to minetest.get_us_time(). dtime is likely unreliable and we have our own high-res timer that we can fix if it is indeed broken. This removes the need to do any sort of time keeping.
* Clocksource: use a better clock if available.Auke Kok2016-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | clock_gettime() is a far better clock than gettimeofday(). Even better than clock_gettime() is that you can select either CLOCK_MONOTONIC, or even CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW. These clocks offer high precision time. And the _RAW variant will never roll back due to NTP drift or daylight savings, or otherwise. I've adjusted this code to select the right clock method auto- matically based on what's available in the OS. This means that if you're running a very old linux version, MacOS or other, you will automatically get the best clocksource available. I've tested all Linux clocksources by selectively compiling and running a 10k+ timer test suite. In all cases I confirmed that the 3 POSIX Linux clocksources worked properly, and were selected properly. I've modified the OS X compile path to use the high-res clock source for all time functions, but I can't confirm it works or that it compiles. As for WIN32, I confirmed that the used clocksource is indeed a Monotonic clocksource, so good news: that code section appears to be exactly what it should be.
* Allow per-tiles culling.Auke Kok2016-01-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Backface culling is enabled by default for all tiles, as this is how the lua parser initializes each tiledef. We revert to always using the value from the tiledef since it is always read and serialized. Mods that wish to enable culling for e.g. mesh nodes, now can specify the following to enable backface culling: tiles = {{ name = "tex.png", backface_culling = true }}, Note the double '{' and use of 'name' key here! In the same fashion, backface_culling can be disabled for any node now. I've tested this against the new door models and this properly allows me to disable culling per node. I've also tested this against my crops mod which uses mesh nodes where culling needs to be disabled, and tested also with plantlike drawtype nodes where we want this to continue to be disabled. No default setting has changed. The defaults are just migrated from nodedef.cpp to c_content.cpp.
* Show infotext with description for item entitiesRealBadAngel2016-01-18
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