Time  Nick        Message
00:15 rdococ      hmm
00:17 rdococ      "Items" are rigid entities that may only vary in properties like type and tool wear, which makes it difficult for innovation to occur in an economy-based server.
00:18 rdococ      I want to find ways around this, either by adding more variables (in the form of item metadata) and a complex system for creating tools where these properties vary, or with something else entirely.
00:19 rubenwardy  That would be cool
00:19 rubenwardy  I was planning on having quality tiers, and then research used to unlock things
00:19 rubenwardy  For example, researching new clothes
00:20 rubenwardy  It's hard to do true innovation though
00:20 rubenwardy  But a research system helps
00:55 tumeninodes sofar: is there a way to stop mcimport via terminal?
02:55 luk3yx      How can I get minetest.localplayer from a CSM on MT 0.5? "minetest.register_on_connect()" doesn't work.
03:00 luk3yx      minetest.send_chat_message doesn't error but silently ignores messages.
05:48 tumeninodes any forum mods who might be awake, want to remove the images, etc from this members post? https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?p=339376#p339376
05:48 tumeninodes bad enough kids prob find this stuff on their own without being pointed to it from here
05:49 tumeninodes the point could have been made without the direct references
05:53 tumeninodes disregard, it was promptly taken care of :)
13:26 ANAND       Is it possible to make a function passed to minetest.after return something?
13:30 ANAND       I'm running minetest.after in a loop, and I want to pass the value returned by minetest.after in one iteration to the next.
13:30 Krock       if it were C/C++ I'd suggest to use local static variables
13:30 Krock       global variable then.
13:31 Krock       return global_var = my_returnvalue / magic;
13:31 Krock       not sure if that works as expected
13:31 ANAND       I'll try it out, thanks
13:32 rubenwardy  pipelines!
13:33 Krock       pipelines in Lua?
13:33 rubenwardy  huh, I can't find my code snippet
13:33 rubenwardy  I wrote a lua library where you gave it a list of functions, and it would pass the results of one into the next
13:34 rubenwardy  https://gist.github.com/rubenwardy/ca8b39276dd53aad5a7a1996fe0e84c9
13:34 rubenwardy  ANAND ^
13:34 ANAND       Oh cool
13:35 rubenwardy  pipeline(INTERVAL, LIST_OF_FUNCS)
13:35 ANAND       Neat
13:36 Krock       you could use that pipeline function to write a RPN interpreter in Lua
13:37 Krock       eh, not an interpreter but calculator would work
15:14 IhrFussel   Hi guys... I need some kind of math formular that ensures that for example a L.1 player who kills another L.1 gets more EXP than a L.5 when they kill a L.1 ... so basically the higher player1 is the less they should get for killing lower levels
15:29 Krock       IhrFussel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
15:31 T4im        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glicko_rating_system
17:17 BillyS      How do I spawn a dropped item?
17:18 BillyS      Ive gotten to the minetest.add_entity(<pos>, "__builtin:item") part, but I don't know how to make it a specific item
17:18 BillyS      I'm guessing I have to pass it some staticdata ...
17:25 BillyS      oh, staticdata is a string, not a table
17:25 BillyS      derp
17:42 Krock       add_item(pos, itemstack)
17:43 Krock       builtin entities have API functions
17:43 Krock       falling node has spawn_falling or something similar
18:42 luk3yx      Don't think anyone saw my last message, but in (my build of) MT 5.0, CSMs are broken and can't register_on_connect and sent chat messages are ignored.
18:44 Krock       disable the CSM restrictions or edit your client to play on multiplayer
18:44 Krock       broken by design (TM)
18:44 * luk3yx    did disable the CSM restrictions unless 5.0 has more in place
18:46 Krock       set the setting to 0
18:46 Krock       csm_restriction_flags = 0
18:47 luk3yx      Oh, I see
18:48 Krock       did it fix your issue?
18:48 luk3yx      Going to try it
18:51 luk3yx      It works.
18:51 * luk3yx    set it to 60 after reading the description
18:52 Krock       !next
18:52 MinetestBot Another satisfied customer. Next!
18:52 luk3yx      Actually™,
18:52 luk3yx      Why aren't CSMs restricted by signature (maybe sha256sum the whole mod) as well?
18:53 Krock       who would check the signature?
18:53 Krock       in open-source projects the server has no control about what the client does
18:53 Krock       it can only restrict it so that the actions are similar to a regular player
18:56 Krock       so you would be kinda developing anticheat and realistic NPCs at the same time
19:17 Calinou     Krock:  I don't, I was just linked the comment on Discord
19:19 Krock       oh okay. So someone on Discord is reading Reddit
19:21 Calinou     pretty much
19:21 Calinou     I browse subreddits by proxy, I guess :P
19:22 Krock       human proxy
19:41 IhrFussel   There is no way for a particle to ignore certain nodes for collision detection correct?
19:41 IhrFussel   I find no callback for something like that
19:42 Krock       no, neither can you change it for any objects or players
19:42 Krock       collision applies the same for all nodes
19:45 IhrFussel   Just what I thought...one of my players asked me if I could let the "smoke" go through nodes with holes in them
19:45 IhrFussel   For their chimney
22:02 rdococ      I'm working on a "base 12" currency mod with denominations of 1, 2, 6, 12, 24, 72, etc.
22:51 Fixer       https://twitter.com/catovitch/status/1079489087680086016