EnlivenMinetest/doc/development.md

Developer Notes

Building

• scripts and sources for recreating ENLIVEN subgame are at the EnlivenMinetest project page: https://github.com/Poikilos/EnlivenMinetest

Further steps needed to recreate:

• extract entire zip from sfan5
• run postinstall.bat
• change version number in %USERPROFILE%\Documents\GitHub\EnlivenMinetest\winclient\install ENLIVEN.iss
• change version number in %USERPROFILE%\Documents\GitHub\EnlivenMinetest\winclient\launcher-src\ENLIVEN.pro

additional notes

• The recommended minetest.conf for subgame, including for server, is in the ENLIVEN subgame folder (also available at EnlivenMinetest on GitHub

Planning

• Review octacian's Per-player Gamemodes and see if still relevant.
• Fix attribution for Fireball: Copyright (c) 2010-2011 Perttu Ahola celeron55@gmail.com (CC BY-SA 3.0) according to https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/stable-0.3/README.txt
  • Found here thanks to PilzAdam
• optimize or improve decoblocks
  • Is it the same as the one from decoblocks game? See: https://minetest.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=6420&sid=21c1c7e61a1b4e61661ceaae3b41519a
• recommend fork of misfit model 3d to modders, if it works
  • https://github.com/zturtleman/mm3d/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue
  • Blender 2.8 replaces 2.79 on Fedora 30 now, so export plugins for Blender to b3d do not work yet
    • See if Joric's is easier to port or already ported.
• make new non-magical items based on traxie21 potions if that is a good start.
• Review the state of More-creeps-and-weirdoes-blender-models and see if any more work is necessary
• Read https://oldcoder.org/general/artwork/watercodia.html
• Review armor settings and ensure they don't interfere with Kinetic Combat plans.
  • https://github.com/stujones11/minetest-3d_armor/blob/master/settingtypes.txt
  • [Modpack] 3D Armor [0.4.8] [minetest-3d_armor]
• Review MineClone2's "Missing features in Minetest..."
  • See which were implemented in MineClone2 and how.
• Review user-submitted mob textures at Post your - Textures for Mobs and use any that are better.
• Review textures packs and consider using one instead of default, or including one or more, or adding interface to add more automatically.
  • PixelPerfection - By XSSheep
  • [16x] PixelBOX Reloaded
  • Only on .net site: [16x] VILJA PIX 2.0 (modified by Jozet)
  • mini8x
  • Only on .net site: [16px] Isabella II - Minetest Community Edition
• Try Jordach's [Game] Big Freaking Dig [0.5] on Final Minetest.
• (only on .net site) Review issues regarding damage_per_second

minetest.org build speeds

linux-minetest-kit ~200527

• Intel i7-4770K
  • libraries ~3m
  • program ~4m

Regression Tests

• Use of input in python, where should never be used except in poikilos.py (some/all of that may be moved to parsing.py in https://github.com/Poikilos/pycodetool) and minetestinfo.py for first-time setup or when interactive_enable is True

C++ Debugging

These steps are only needed for debug builds.

GUI:

• Try the "Scope" Geany plugin (geany-plugins-scope) which is a "Graphical GDB frontend".

CLI (Command-Line Interface):

• build minetest with --debug option
• cd to linux-minetest-kit/minetest/bin directory
• type (you must put ./ before minetest to ensure that gdb will use your debug build instead of a version your system path): gdb ./minetest
• After the symbols finish loading, complete the following within gdb: run
  • If the program terminates, gdb will tell you what debug symbol packages are needed for your distro.
  • When you are done debugging, type: quit
• Try debugging again after the proper packages are installed.