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diff --git a/doc/lua_api.txt b/doc/lua_api.txt index ccc30a2a1..fa9d53cc1 100644 --- a/doc/lua_api.txt +++ b/doc/lua_api.txt @@ -47,30 +47,29 @@ Paths Games ----- Games are looked up from: - * `$path_share/games/gameid/` - * `$path_user/games/gameid/` + +* `$path_share/games/gameid/` +* `$path_user/games/gameid/` + Where `gameid` is unique to each game. The game directory can contain the following files: - * `game.conf` - Which contains: - * name = <Human-readable full name of the game> - e.g. - name = Minetest - * Optionally, game.conf can also contain: - disallowed_mapgens = <comma-separated mapgens> - e.g. - disallowed_mapgens = v5,v6,flat - These mapgens are removed from the list of mapgens for the game. - * minetest.conf - Used to set default settings when running this game. - * settingtypes.txt - In the same format as the one in builtin. - This settingtypes.txt will be parsed by the menu and the settings will be - displayed in the "Games" category in the advanced settings tab. - * If the subgame contains a folder called `textures` the server will load it - as a texturepack, overriding mod textures. - Any server texturepack will override mod textures and the game texturepack. + +* `game.conf`, which contains: + * `name = <Human-readable full name of the game>` e.g. `name = Minetest` + * Optionally, game.conf can also contain + `disallowed_mapgens = <comma-separated mapgens>` + e.g. `disallowed_mapgens = v5,v6,flat` + These mapgens are removed from the list of mapgens for the game. +* `minetest.conf`: + Used to set default settings when running this game. +* `settingtypes.txt`: + In the same format as the one in builtin. + This settingtypes.txt will be parsed by the menu and the settings will be + displayed in the "Games" category in the advanced settings tab. +* If the subgame contains a folder called `textures` the server will load it + as a texturepack, overriding mod textures. + Any server texturepack will override mod textures and the game texturepack. ### Menu images @@ -555,6 +554,7 @@ stretched to contain exactly 256 pixels (after arranging the pixels to one line). The indexing starts from 0. Examples: + * 16x16 palette, index = 0: the top left corner * 16x16 palette, index = 4: the fifth pixel in the first row * 16x16 palette, index = 16: the pixel below the top left corner @@ -579,6 +579,7 @@ When registering a node, set the item definition's `palette` field to a texture. You can also use texture modifiers. The node's color depends on its `param2`, so you also must set an appropriate `drawtype`: + * `drawtype = "color"` for nodes which use their full `param2` for palette indexing. These nodes can have 256 different colors. The palette should contain 256 pixels. @@ -621,6 +622,7 @@ when a player digs or places a colored node. You can disable this feature by setting the `drop` field of the node to itself (without metadata). To transfer the color to a special drop, you need a drop table. + Example: minetest.register_node("mod:stone", { @@ -2419,6 +2421,7 @@ The file should be a text file, with the following format: ### Escapes Strings that need to be translated can contain several escapes, preceded by `@`. + * `@@` acts as a literal `@`. * `@n`, where `n` is a digit between 1 and 9, is an argument for the translated string that will be inlined when translation. Due to how translations are implemented, the original translation string **must** have |