Time  Nick       Message
11:54 kilbith    that would be worth giving some attention to #4420 and #4926 at some point
11:54 ShadowBot  https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/4420 -- Sqlite3 database concurrent use & possible speed improvement by Rogier-5
11:54 ShadowBot  https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/4926 -- Cache information about blocks not found in database by Rogier-5
11:55 kilbith    and to implement the 'vertical' property to the Irrlicht particle spawner
11:56 kilbith    that's my TODO list for the week
12:02 rubenwardy Good to hear
14:23 p_gimeno   why aren't commits echoed in this channel? is there so much public interest as to have them in the general channel?
14:46 rubenwardy Probably historic reasons
18:55 Krock      !tell DS-minetest Here's an idea on how to solve the formspec issue: collect the pointers of each element that will be sorted. std::vector<ElementData> where ElementData is a struct containing IGUIElement* (2x, if item_image_button). Sort by first ptr
18:55 ShadowBot  Krock: O.K.
19:19 Krock      !tell DS-minetest (after PC crash) Each element seems to be registered in "m_fields", including its ID. You can also lookup that ID to get the IGUIElement pointer. Idea: Include "int priority" in FieldSpec which is only used for legacy sorting
19:19 ShadowBot  Krock: O.K.
19:21 Krock      !tell DS-minetest Depending on the sorting algorithm it will be possible to let some buttons have the same priority as items (image buttons) and you won't need to do a type lookup to perform the sorting
19:21 ShadowBot  Krock: O.K.
19:21 Krock      just in case you're stuck
23:12 DevyHeavy  Is there any reason why a mod shouldn't or couldn't edit shader constants?
23:12 DevyHeavy  An example would be in the following link, but it's not done by a mod: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/search?q=setVertexShaderConstant&unscoped_q=setVertexShaderConstant
23:15 rubenwardy DevyHeavy: not implemented yet because mods are currently entirely server-side and adding any remote execution including in shaders is risky
23:15 rubenwardy note that Minetest modding tends to be plugin-based not patch/reflection-based. This is why mods don't tend to break between versions
23:15 rubenwardy but also means that what you can do is limited to what the engine exposes to you
23:16 rubenwardy you can also do patch-based modding by editing the engine C++ code
23:16 rubenwardy no one tends to do that though
23:16 rubenwardy Also, are you literally just talking about modifying constands and not the shaders themselves?
23:18 DevyHeavy  Thanks for the info. In my case, I would edit the shaders to add variables/constants that would have then been edited like in the link. I'm new to shaders so perhaps that's not the best, not sure.
23:19 rubenwardy it usually doesn't make sense to do that unless the shader itself it designed in such a way to allow it
23:24 DevyHeavy  Also, if you're curious, the reason I asked is because I am working on a dynamic weather mod but I would like to portray rough weather by changing particle direction and speed which can be done already, but wind speed should affect the wave speed of plants and maybe water. However, plant speed is not implemented yet, but even for water wave speed it's not possible I guess for the reasons you stated above.