Time  Nick   Message
11:38 ]||[   thexyz: im making a region protection mod, like the worldguard bukkit plugin
11:38 ]||[   the way im trying to do it is the user punches a block with "wand" as first position, and then punches second block and does a command like ./region define
11:39 ]||[   so im trying to use find_nodes_in_area to get all the nodes in the region and set their metadata
11:39 ]||[   though im not sure if its the correct way to do that either, i thought about using files or even lsqlite3
11:39 ]||[   im really new to minetest and game related coding in general so its all kind of a new thing to me
11:41 kaeza  ]||[, use the WorldEdit's way
11:42 kaeza  also, find_nodes_in_area is slow
12:03 ]||[   kaeza: whats worldedits way?
12:03 ]||[   i mean, ive used worldedit and know how it works from the player perspective
12:04 ]||[   just not from the code perspective
12:04 kaeza  ]||[, it uses entities as markers
12:04 ]||[   hmmmm
12:04 ]||[   so then
12:05 ]||[   when i register on dignode, placenode, etc to check if its in a region or not, how do i actually check if the node is between those markers? the math is a little confusing to me
12:34 kaeza  one way would be having a table with all the defined regions
12:34 kaeza  and check it every time a player digs a node
12:34 kaeza  100% guaranteed to be slow
12:35 kaeza  node protection is not easy
12:35 kaeza  at least not making a high performance implementation
12:35 ]||[   yeah
12:36 ]||[   what i was going for with find_nodes_in_area was setting metadata to each node
12:36 ]||[   which would be slow making regions, but, theoretically not /that/ slow using them i guess
12:36 kaeza  well, that could be one, yes
12:36 kaeza  so ignore what I said :P
12:37 ]||[   heh
12:37 ]||[   the other problem with that
12:37 ]||[   is you cant simply delete a region that way
12:37 ]||[   and also, i dont like having mod data like that integrated into the world files
12:37 ]||[   its messy
18:32 thexyz kaeza: that won't be slow
18:33 thexyz at least, that won't be very slow