Posts by LordFoobar

Quote from Spockton

@red51 would it be possible to make a seperate area under (((German Forum))) ((( German Technical ))) as I don't speak at all. Thank you

Use Google Chrome's Translate extension. I use this to translate things from German and other languages. Not a perfect tool, but helps understanding the idea of a conversation.

It is not possible to convert back J3O files "out of the box". There might be tools to do so, but nothing official. You can find more information about asset management with JMonkeyEngine here. It is important to note that this is so to ensure that models are not easily ripped from a game.

Bottom line is, you need the original models, or you need to create some from scratch.

These mods should wait until the game comes out of alpha. There may and will be a lot of changes until a beta is reached. In any case, of course having survival mods are expected! It's not a question of "if", but "when".

Cheers!

Complete /we plant refactored! Now a lot easier to use with even more options Take a look at the README for more information and examples.

@TutMeistensNix you can make that video, it is very unlikely that anything will change too much regarding the command now.

Important: The german (DE) locale has not been translated! If anyone care to do that, and/or anyone point out any errors in the EN locale, too! I'm not even a native english person

Note: I installed a distance limit of 64 blocks and a number of total plants planted to 500. These limits may be modified at your own discretion in the "commandListener.lua" file, the first two local variables declared (and commented for you). These limits, I assume are for the better of most servers as placing a single plant requires a few 3D calculations to find the correct terrain height and, if planting too much, will hang the server temporarily. Limiting the amount at once helps limit server lags. Just repeat the same command to plant more than the prescribed limit.

Hmm... yes, world-edit does that already; place blocks and fill selection of terrain (dirt, grass, rocks, stone, etc.)

Quote from icon58

one other thing I was curious about, you was able to add plants how come no other textures?

I don't understand. You mean, adding other objects? While this is technically possible, it is far easier to use the "item" console command and use the game placement system. Planting is just not available in game (you can cut down trees, but you can't plant any.... yet)

Quote from icon58

Thank you all for you hard work. When I try even the simplest LUA like Hello world it tell me "no".

So I know there is a lot of hard work in this add on and it is great. One question is there any way to first make a straight line? Then to say you are a the limit of the \we clear \we fill etc.

Second question is there anyway you can remove the unknown command when I run this command or is that hard coded into the game?

Thanks again....

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The "Unknown command" is coming from the area protection script, there's not much I can do about it with world-edit...

As for the limit of selection, there could be a solution, and I'll see what I can do. But having a "hard" limit (not be able to select passed the limit) would be much much better and I was hoping that this would be a game feature before fiddling with this... (Like when I implemented wordwrap for that chat, then Red implemented it into the game )

So far, here is the idea (not currently implemented). If anyone care to comment will implement it this weekend.

Quote from TutMeistensNix

Ich werde versuchen am Samstag Nachmittag eine Video Anleitung zu machen, es ist wirklich etwas kompliziert was er da gemacht hat.

Wait until the next update, please, it will be easier then I just had an idea and this will remove the -x and -z altogether.

Quote from papotar

Merci pour la mise à jour .... super

Vivement l'option "Peindre"

LordFoobar, ton château est toujours en place sur le serveur

Merci pour votre boulot

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hahah! Le temps me manque... et sans World-Edit (je n'y ait pas accès sur ton serveur ) je suis très limité. Mais j'ai l'intention d'e m'y remettre! Dans tous les cas, merci de l'info! Pour World-Edit, il y aura quelques ajustements mineurs dans la prochaine version, question de ne pas bloquer le serveur... parce qu'il n'y a pas de restrictions sur le nombre de plante et le serveur bloque pendant l'exécution de la commande. Donc, y'a un potentiel de dommage et ça va être réglé en fin de semaine. Il y aura aussi une autre commande pour créer une ligne de plantes dans la direction du joueur (non seulement x et z). D'autant plus que x et z n'est pas vraiment intuitif et on pourrait changer ça pour ns (north-south) et ew (east-west) qui nécessiterait qu'une boussole.

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[...] There are some adjustments that need to be made on the plant command, so it does not freeze the server too long... because there are no restriction on the amount of plants that the command can process at once and this can cause the server to freeze during execution. So, there's a potential to cause damage et this should be resolved this weekend. There should also be a command to create a line going in the angle facing the player (so, not limited to x and z). Furthermore, x and z are not intuitive and may be replaced by ns (north-south) and ew (east-west) which only require a compass.

Sorry, my german is practically non existent and I don't dare messing it up with Google Translate... Someone can tell @hkurzawa that he can get the Chrome extension to perform live translation on english test? It might help. With the extension, just select the text to translate, then click on the "Google Translate" icon in Chrome's toolbar. This is what I use and it's good enough for me to understand what's posted in German

Quote from yahgiggle

nice work LordFoobar now we need 3d text added i wont use this but i feel some players will want it

Thanks!

3D text and world editing?? lol whoever wants it will implement it. There are a few features that are far more important just now. I'd need to have some use case of 3d text usage... right now, the only use I can think of is some sort of showing area names (i.e. area protection), or if anyone wants to create some type of mini-game of some sort...

Well, there it is! Finally!

I also merged (as authorized by Yahgiggle) the planting commands into the script. And I plan to add some more... for example a /we paint to change texture on the ground to do what /we fill can't.

Take a look here for more information.

I'm actually using a "fractal" approach to find the actual correct y value

Quote from red51

Hmm.. I was wondering about this, since the getTerrainData() function should work properly. But I found the issue in this case, "ChunkUtils:getChunkAndBlockPosition()" does not return the expected block position: The x, y and z values of the blockposition have an offset of two (it has technical reasons, since we use this function internally too). I already changed this (the fix will be available with the next update). In the meantime, you could subtract the value "2" from the blockposition as a workaround, like this:
[lua]local terrainId = world:getTerrainData(chunkPos.x, chunkPos.y, chunkPos.z, blockPos.x - 2, blockPos.y - 2, blockPos.z - 2);[/lua]

I was wondering why the - 2 as I have seen this at a few places already.

Cheers!

I can't wrap my head around this and trying to understand why I can't make it work is nothing but time consuming.

This is what I try

local chunkPos = Vector:createVector3i(0, 0, 0);
local blockPos = Vector:createVector3i(0, 0, 0);
local globalPos = event.player.getPosition();


ChunkUtils:getChunkAndBlockPosition(globalPos, chunkPos, blockPos);


local terrainId = world:getTerrainData(chunkPos.x, chunkPos.y, chunkPos.z, blockPos.x, blockPos.y, blockPos.z);


print(terrainId);

The value printed is always 0.

... as I promised... like... weeks ago (lol) I will integrate this to master and push to this github tonight... promised!!

I have to remove my homemade text wrapper anyway, since RW added that in the last updates.

I'm such a lazy coder... I was playing Borderlands 2 yesterday and could have done that. *sigh*

Just a point to note, "/we clear abs" is pretty much the same as "/we clear all" then "/we fill air". You can see it here, where "fillTerrain(e, 0);" is called if the "clearAll" argument is true (see the command implementation).

Also, for big areas, the games puts a limit of 127x127 blocks. So, regardless on the selected area, only 127x127 (I don't remember how many block high, but I think it's 64...) blocks will be cleared from the starting x,y,z coordinate of your selection. This limit is to avoid 1) accidental clear, like it happened on one server, because 2) clearing very large area could potentially crash the server and corrupt the world.

What I would personally like are veins of ores, and not just patches of them. It would make digging easier; you find a patch, then mine the ore along.

Quote from Trillnar

I can Just see someone trying to blueprint the whole town I am sure there will probably be a size limit.

Having a selected area size limit (and initial, or minimal, size) is something that I have been asking for a while now... especially since placing blocks is limited in size anyhow.

Quote from Tobi7889

I added this to my Server by GIT - but everytime it shows "Unknown Command" - I'm Admin at the Server.
Maybe in case of MySQL usage for the mainsystem?

It should not matter what db engine you are using. The commands have changed since 1.x and are using the same pattern as the "World Edit" script; all command start with /area. If /area help does not work, then the script failed while loading the world. However it should help if you can tell me if you see any error in your debug console.

I know my last update was about two months ago, but I'm in a middle of another big project and have little time to complete the script just yet. (The only time being at night, when I'm already tired of my long day.) The basics are supposed to work, but it's hardly a finished script (i.e. it is unstable and incomplete). Also, debugging problems with AreaProtection is somewhat long and tedious as the game does not have proper debugging tools yet. But it is not abandoned and will be completed soon enough.

Bottom line is, and yet again, this is not production ready. Meaning that you should not install this script on a public server just yet.