Time  Nick         Message
00:32 paramat      pushing soon https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/2777 -- Biome API: Enable generateBiomes to world base
01:05 paramat      now pushing 2777
01:06 nolsen       .
01:06 nolsen       I just updated with git pull already.
01:06 nolsen       oh well.
01:11 paramat      complete
01:14 nolsen       I think I encounter an bug with static_spawnpoint
01:15 nolsen       It's ignoring the line in minetest.conf
01:20 paramat      sounds familiar
01:21 paramat      there might be a bug report issue raised at github
01:22 nolsen       static_spawnpoint = 488, 30, 476
01:22 nolsen       instead, It spawns me at 0, 3, 0
01:22 nolsen       Which was in the ground.
01:23 nolsen       I had to dig a way out or people will do what they usually do, but more easily.
01:36 VanessaE     nolsen: get rid of the spaces.
01:37 VanessaE     make it: static_spawnpoint = 488,30,476
01:37 nolsen       VanessaE: Tried it without spaces
01:41 VanessaE     odd.
01:41 VanessaE     usually works for me, but there is a network glitch that sometimes causes players to spawn at 0,0,0
01:54 nolsen       #2788
01:54 ShadowBot    https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/2788 -- Tab complete feature.
01:59 paramat      hmmmm or anyone, how do i declare the blend noise params and seed in the scope of getBiome? see https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/2764#issuecomment-111679349
02:43 paramat      nevermind i seem to be getting somewhere..
02:47 paramat      slowly
03:04 paramat      compiles but segfaults. im cargo culting stuff so above my level i doubt it's worth trying to figure this out myself..
03:05 paramat      https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/2764
03:55 hmmmm        hmm
03:57 hmmmm        paramat:  do you actually need to calculate the biome blending inside getBiome()?
03:57 hmmmm        separation of concerns
03:58 hmmmm        if your goal is to make the detail of heat maps and humidity maps more noisy, then perhaps you should be modifying that in heat_map and humidity_map
03:58 paramat      erm i considered that and thought that was best
03:58 hmmmm        my point is
03:58 paramat      yes i would prefer that
03:58 hmmmm        the biome manager shouldn't really know anything about the map seed
03:58 hmmmm        the mapgen should know about the map seed
03:58 hmmmm        all the biome manager knows about is heat, humidity, and height
03:59 paramat      also it would be best for heatmap and humiditymap to include the blend variation
03:59 hmmmm        yeah :/
03:59 hmmmm        if you're going to modify the heat and humidity, then actually modify it
03:59 hmmmm        otherwise this information wouldn't be available through the rest of the interface
04:00 hmmmm        so if I were implementing this, I would personally put the modification inside of generateNoise()s
04:00 paramat      ah so point poll blend noise and add the values to the heat/humidity maps
04:00 hmmmm        it's the single most straightforward solution
04:00 hmmmm        and it requires no modifications whatsoever to the biome manager
04:00 paramat      yes i agree
04:01 hmmmm        to answer your question though
04:01 paramat      okay i will rework this , thanks
04:01 hmmmm        you need to learn more C++ :p
04:01 paramat      yeah!
04:01 hmmmm        this is really cargo culting at its finest, except it doesn't work at all
04:01 hmmmm        adding Mapgen *mg; to a class definition doesn't magically make it have the same information as the mapgen
04:01 paramat      those were deperate acts..
04:02 hmmmm        if you actually wanted to make things work that way, you'd have to initialize those variables some place before getBiome gets called
04:02 hmmmm        like, add bmgr->mg = this; in makeChunk()
04:02 hmmmm        and bmgr->params = &this->params;
04:03 hmmmm        but I would recommend against that simply because you're actually modifying heat and humidity, and it should reflect this in the heat/humidity maps
04:03 paramat      yes
04:03 paramat      good i have a new direction =)
04:05 paramat      i have some more changes to mgv7 noiseparams coming, details will be in the thread
04:07 paramat      also i have a game PR that corrects 'is ground content' settings. wondering why trees/leaves are currently 'false' when other plantlife is 'true'
04:07 hmmmm        non ononononono
04:07 hmmmm        don't do that
04:07 hmmmm        making leaves not part of ground content helps stop cavegen griefing
04:08 paramat      many are incorrect
04:08 paramat      aha i see
04:09 paramat      yes i'll leave trees/leaves false then
04:09 paramat      i didn't change that in the PR
04:10 paramat      it's odd that mgv6 small caves don't overgenerate, we could have more intersections. perhaps your multi-stage mapgen could overgen small caves since it removes griefing
04:13 paramat      i noticed MC caves seem to have more intersections and therefore more interesting
04:24 paramat      also i'm adding savanna to the mgv5/v7 biome system, and will let part of rainforest grow in shallow water to create swamps
04:37 hmmmm        hmmm
04:37 hmmmm        i can't think of why small caves don't overgenerate
06:36 paramat      compiles and runs but no terrain generates, weird https://github.com/paramat/minetest/tree/noiseblend
06:39 paramat      hi nore, https://github.com/minetest/minetest_game/pull/539 -- Fix is_ground_content settings for nodes. Please could you review this sometime?
13:42 celeron55    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je-KroYSzrU
13:43 celeron55    lol i'm cringing hard at how much this is suffering due to no moddable client-side physics or camera or anything
13:44 celeron55    every core developer should watch this
15:28 est31        pushing #2790
15:28 ShadowBot    https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/2790 -- Fixed crash caused by saplings trying to grow on unknown nodes by Y-st
15:48 RealBadAngel https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2177790/8163843/cebc3308-1385-11e5-8626-3023a865c388.png
15:49 RealBadAngel ^^ connected textures
15:51 est31        also showcasing a weakness of what kenney suggested
15:51 est31        on the edges, there is this ugly diagonal
16:00 RealBadAngel yes, triangles do cut edge pixels in half
16:03 * est31      wonders whether there is a better method
16:03 est31        interestingly, in kenney's suggestion, there is a full edge for the glass texture
16:04 RealBadAngel he propapbly just painted that
16:04 est31        yes I think so
16:04 est31        perhaps one should specify 3 images not two
16:05 est31        the first is the base one which is painted always
16:05 nore         I also noticed an incompatibility in his suggestion
16:05 est31        then a second which is drawn using diagonals
16:05 nore         the middle glass in the top row has a white bottom-left pixel
16:06 est31        thats what we are speaking about :)
16:06 nore         while in the red & blue textures, that pixel in yellow
16:06 est31        https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/8872119/8164299/62beba74-1388-11e5-8acc-03de9c522379.pn
16:06 est31        g
16:06 RealBadAngel but that method will work for his another examples
16:06 est31        and a third which is drawn last using 4 sub tiles
16:06 nore         est31: I mean, not that
16:07 est31        ah I see nore
16:07 nore         from his spec, pixels on diagonals should be drawn with the not-connected texture
16:07 est31        from his spec, its not observable, because there is an incompatibility as you said
16:08 nore         yep, there is one on glass
16:08 est31        The method I suggest with 3 images would support both use cases
16:08 nore         (the other drawings correctly match the spec though)
16:08 nore         so, what would your suggestion be?
16:08 est31        <est31> the first is the base one which is painted always
16:08 est31        <est31> then a second which is drawn using diagonals
16:09 est31        <est31> and a third which is drawn last using 4 (rectangular) sub tiles
16:10 nore         ah, I see what you mean
16:10 nore         wouldn't you get problems with transparency though?
16:10 est31        if all have an alpha channel, why?
16:11 nore         well, I mean for glass, if you always draw the texture with sides, you going to have a problem
16:11 nolsen       I think I found a bug with v7, there are very few trees D:
16:12 est31        ah I realize it doesnt work
16:13 RealBadAngel est31, that rather wont work
16:14 RealBadAngel how would separate diagonals and display them with triangles?
16:14 RealBadAngel you would need to make meshes for each pixel to do that
16:16 est31        the first two steps are exactly what you are doing no?
16:19 hmmmm        paramat:  if you're around, check this out:  http://vterrain.org/
16:19 hmmmm        specifically http://vterrain.org/Elevation/Caves/
16:26 est31        yet another preference PR https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/2787
16:27 hmmmm        well
16:27 hmmmm        it's up to you, i don't really care
16:27 hmmmm        also why is darkrose still in the core developer section
16:28 hmmmm        and you aren't
16:31 est31        the last time it was updated when I wasn't core dev yet
16:31 est31        as long as it gets updated till the next release...
16:35 RealBadAngel https://imgrush.com/G4EnJd193gZx.png
16:35 RealBadAngel looks a bit better than glass
16:36 Taoki        RealBadAngel: Hi :) Did you see my last message yesterday, about the new parallax?
16:36 RealBadAngel i think not
16:36 RealBadAngel hi
16:36 Taoki        [02:28:49] <Taoki> RealBadAngel: Got latest master, confirming the new parallax effect works for me (AMD / MESA). Thank you... it looks so sweet and realistic!
16:36 Taoki        [02:32:54] <Taoki> Strange however... it only seems to work sometimes o.o I switched back to the window as I wrote the above line, and the effect was gone... I was getting the old parallax. Also when I quit to the main menu than back in. So something might be causing it to switch between the two randomly.
16:37 est31        RealBadAngel, now, how did you do it?
16:38 est31        because this is against my theory :)
16:38 RealBadAngel est31 those textures have common pixels on diagonals
16:38 est31        ah I see
16:38 est31        still the diagonal method
16:38 est31        cool
16:39 RealBadAngel Taoki, seems like another AMD related issue, we will have to find out what happens
16:40 RealBadAngel est31, what i have done is splitting each face into four triangles instead of 2
16:40 Taoki        RealBadAngel: AMD related or MESA related. But yeah... all I know is I was getting the new effect, then switched to the IRC window, then when I alt + tab'd back to Minetest I was getting the old parallax again.
16:40 Taoki        Before that, I was getting the old parallax, exited to the main menu, re-entered the world, then the new one was working.
16:41 RealBadAngel Taoki, by old parallax you mean that auto generation of heightmaps stopped working?
16:42 RealBadAngel i would like to see screenshots before and after
16:42 Taoki        RealBadAngel: Possibly. I mostly mean I was getting the effect before the change.
16:42 Taoki        That sounds most likely
16:44 RealBadAngel est31, theres another solution to make those textures
16:45 est31        RealBadAngel, ok 4 triangles is what thought.
16:45 RealBadAngel most easy would be a script that will  calculate all the possible combinations - five of them, taking care of those pixels on diagonals
16:45 RealBadAngel and store them as animation frames
16:46 est31        I count 12
16:46 est31        err 13
16:46 rubenwardy   connected looking good :D
16:47 RealBadAngel why so much?
16:47 RealBadAngel i can see just 5 :)
16:47 est31        lemme make an ascii art
16:48 est31        oh even more
16:48 est31        RealBadAngel, you disregard roatation?
16:49 RealBadAngel imho you just need base case
16:49 est31        yea
16:50 est31        still I count 6 RealBadAngel
16:51 est31        http://pastebin.com/2px6z4wJ
16:51 RealBadAngel ah yes
16:51 nore         est31: there is however a rotation problem (i.e. bookshelf...)
16:52 est31        yes
16:52 nore         and the diagonal problem (+#/## vs +#/# )
16:52 nore         (the one there is with glass with kenney's suggestion)
16:53 est31        ah I see
16:54 est31        I think we need something like a programming language
16:54 est31        input: 8 bits for the tiles around
16:54 est31        output: rules to make a texture
16:57 nore         isn't it a bit overkill?
16:58 RealBadAngel for sure it is :)
17:01 rubenwardy   Overkill is fun for the end user!
17:03 est31        ok something simpler:
17:04 rubenwardy   MTTCPL
17:04 rubenwardy   MinetestTextureConnectingProgrammingLanguage
17:04 est31        you provide a map from 8 ternary values to a tile each
17:05 est31        the values are: 1 (is there) 0 (might be there) and -1 (is not there)
17:05 est31        or rather you provide an array with tuples (8 ternary values, tile)
17:06 est31        then when it comes to rendering, the array is traversed for every tile, and the 8 ternary values are compared with the actual 8 inside the world
17:06 est31        if there is a "match", the tile is "added", if there is no, nothing happens
17:07 est31        all tiles have alpha values, so you can have transparency
17:07 est31        examples
17:07 est31        1. the glass
17:08 est31        ah, dont know how to describe them
17:09 est31        but all the examples kenney suggested would work
17:09 RealBadAngel but one problem
17:09 RealBadAngel only shaders can do that
17:10 est31        gtg
17:11 RealBadAngel john_cephalopoda, check master
17:13 RealBadAngel https://bitbucket.org/prupe/mcpatcher/wiki/CTM_Methods
17:13 RealBadAngel nore ^^
18:01 * VanessaE   peeks in
18:21 est31        the other option
18:22 est31        would be to have it pre-generated
18:23 est31        all 256 combinations
18:23 est31        like RBA said inside an animation
18:23 est31        or with additional info
18:23 est31        like a table
18:24 est31        that maps the 256 combinations to those pictures
18:24 est31        with multiple combinations being abled tomap to one picture
18:25 est31        (basically what I suggested before, but already generated)
18:25 est31        so it wont need a shader
18:25 est31        RealBadAngel ^
18:25 VanessaE     sounds like a memory hog
18:26 est31        VanessaE, they would have needed to be generated either way
18:26 est31        also its not 256 * texture size unless you utilize all combinations
18:26 VanessaE     ...wehich you KNOW will happen.
18:26 VanessaE     which*(
18:27 est31        also I wonder how RBA did it if not with shaders
18:28 VanessaE     shaders need to be reserved for special effects, and I'm not sure connected textures qualify as that
18:28 est31        agree
18:28 VanessaE     well, special effects and any base effect where they'd be faster purely as an alternative.
18:29 VanessaE     (i.e. lighting, which I'm pretty sure shaders were originally invented for :) )
18:31 nolsen       VanessaE: It appears that spawn.conf keep setting the spawn location at 0, 0, 0. Now I'm not sure if spawn.conf is part of minetest, or is a mod.
18:31 VanessaE     that'll be part of a mod.
18:32 VanessaE     base minetest only uses static_spawnpoint, afaik.
18:32 nolsen       Well I'm not sure what mod is using it.
18:32 VanessaE     (unless something has changed recently)
18:33 VanessaE     probably this one, nolsen:  https://github.com/Pitriss/multispawn
18:34 nolsen       Yep, It is.
18:34 nolsen       Thanks
18:36 VanessaE     yw
21:44 nolsen       #2792
21:44 ShadowBot    https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/2792 -- Ability to move items into your hotbar or chest easy with shift like Minecraft.
21:51 est31        nolsen, do you want to implement it?
21:52 nolsen       I would.
21:52 nolsen       If I knew how.
21:52 nolsen       I haven't even finished my C++ course.
21:52 est31        when I started programming for minetest, I didnt know any c++
21:53 est31        or very tiny bits
21:53 nolsen       Only C++ program I written was to fool skiddies that the program had "hacking abilities" xD
21:54 est31        you only need to modify here, not write
21:54 nolsen       But where would I start?