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authorLoic Blot <loic.blot@unix-experience.fr>2015-02-22 17:01:03 +0100
committerCraig Robbins <kde.psych@gmail.com>2015-02-27 21:34:33 +1000
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Add find_surface_nodes_in_area LUA call which permit to only get the nodes which touch air. This permit to massively improve performance for mods like plantlife
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@@ -1869,6 +1869,9 @@ and `minetest.auth_reload` call the authetification handler.
* `nodenames`: e.g. `{"ignore", "group:tree"}` or `"default:dirt"`
* `minetest.find_nodes_in_area(minp, maxp, nodenames)`: returns a list of positions
* `nodenames`: e.g. `{"ignore", "group:tree"}` or `"default:dirt"`
+* `minetest.find_surface_nodes_in_area(minp, maxp, nodenames)`: returns a list of positions
+ * returned positions are nodes with a node air above
+ * `nodenames`: e.g. `{"ignore", "group:tree"}` or `"default:dirt"`
* `minetest.get_perlin(noiseparams)`
* `minetest.get_perlin(seeddiff, octaves, persistence, scale)`
* Return world-specific perlin noise (`int(worldseed)+seeddiff`)