Comments on: Minetest status update and other things

By: lucrari de dizertatie

lucrari de dizertatie — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 21:35:45 +0000

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By: Sifra

Sifra — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:49:58 +0000

Hello, I would like to spirit up you. Minetest is a great game, much better than Minecraft, of course Minecraft have more functions but is’s a set of buggs in “cripple” language …
Discusion usually leads to better soulution, but you allways find assholes (especially on the internet where you can not see them face).
Keep in good work please.

By: gaq

gaq — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:50:05 +0000

ok, if i understood right there will be one gpled version and one under commercial license?

By: chingis

chingis — Wed, 30 May 2012 15:51:43 +0000

I translated it into kyrgyz language via Launchpad.

By: meequz

meequz — Mon, 28 May 2012 19:22:47 +0000

Do with license what do you want, but don’t close sources ever.

By the way, I sent to Celeron55 a Belarusian translation of Minetest, but I do not see it on github. I have to download the source code included the translation to the test and doing improvements to finish it. Can you include it, please?
I’m really looking forward to version 0.4, and I want see it in Belarusian too =)

Excuse me for my English.

By: bcnjr5

bcnjr5 — Mon, 28 May 2012 01:04:08 +0000

Forums just jumped. (up and down)

By: celeron55

celeron55 — Sun, 27 May 2012 12:17:41 +0000

The forums are indeed down and I can’t do anything about it currently. Hopefully they’ll be up again in less than a week or so.

By: mauvebic

mauvebic — Sun, 27 May 2012 11:06:31 +0000

are the forums down? ive been getting this: http://www.zimg.eu/i/4073034952 for 3 days :-/

By: kddekadenz

kddekadenz — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:42:47 +0000

@mauvebic:
The weather branch is written in C++, and therefore does not use any lua entities.

By: mauvebic

mauvebic — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:03:20 +0000

@kddekadenz – ive already done seasons in lua, what does weather add? ( i also tried adding rain and slow, but lua entities arent up to the task)

I too find the licensing thing a little confusing – bottom line, is there always going to be a free minetest? are we just talking about paid forks, paid patches, ? I cant speak for other modders but i dont write mods for paid games.

Though perso. i dont think its the profit motive (or lack thereof) that prevents people from working on the engine. C/C++ isnt something you pick up over the weekend, god knows ive tried lol but there’s also the fact that c/cpp features are being removed and re-implemented in lua, well that might discourage people from writing c/cpp code that might be taken out in six months :-S And i remember you asking the guy who made a fork with clans and portals to re-implement his features in lua.

I think the best path is to keep expanding the modding api. more functions, more access to world data, perhaps another drawtype to get the imagination flowing, uhm, lua entities are horridly slow (i have 2gb ram and a new gfx card). If it wasn’t for the new function minetest.after, (my) seasons would have been near impossible to implement, so expanding the API does give room for more innovation :-)