realterrain v.0.0.4

A Minetest mod that brings real world Terrain into the game (using freely available DEM tiles). Any image can actually be used.

use any image any bit-depth (suggested to convert to greyscale first):

Supplied heightmap and landcover files:

Biome painting (every 10% of grayscale is a new biome):

Rock strata:

Settings tool (Realterrain Remote)

Dependencies:

• Luarocks
• Luarocks magick package
• Luarocks luafilesystem package
• Mod security disabled

Upgrading:

• delete the realterrain.settings file in the world folder, or just create a new world

Next steps:

• improve land cover system, add trees, shrubs, probabilities
• allow for placement of buildings and other structures via .mts import
• allow DEMs to tile according to standard naming conventions, or explicitly
• allow output of heightmap and land cover to image files
• admin priv for using the settings tool

Changelog

0.0.4

• select layer files in game from a dropdown
• vertical, east, and north offsets
• in-game biome settings

0.0.3

• switched to luarocks "magick" library
• included a biome painting layer, broke the "cover" layer into roads and water layers
• added the files used to the settings tool
• added strata for under the ground
• in game map reset, kicks all players on reset, deletes map.sqlite file

0.0.2

• switched to lua-imlib2 for support of all filetypes and bit depths
• supports downloaded GeoTIFF DEM tiles
• improved landcover
• added a tool, Realterrain Remote, which allows for:
• in game settings for initial tweaking (still requires deleting map.sqlite in world folder for full refresh of map)
• changed orientation of map to top left corner
• code cleanup, smaller supplied image files, screenshot and description for mod screen

0.0.1

• direct file reading of 8 bit tifs