### migration to mt 5.0/5.2 There are the issues Tignasse Verte mentionned: Adding `placer` in `register_functions.lua` (related commit for minenux are commit a996d5ac709446322d6c6261c21e5f0752a6aeeb ) and replacing the two occourances of `nodeupdate` with `minetest.check_for_falling`. (relatd commit for minenux are commit 8c53cabfce2d079df76e57b27b020e016837e8fc ) Other changes are necessary because I changed (and had to change) quite a lot in `mg_villages` internally recently. If you want to get further with running the game under newer versions of MT, replace the versions of `cottages`, `handle_schematics` and `mg_villages` AdventureTest comes with with the newest versions. Then, remove the line `mg_villages.on_generated(minp,maxp,seed)` in `adventuretest/register_functions.lua`. This may have an impact on quests the old explorer is handling out, but if you ignore these for now, the world ought to be usable. Comment out the file/content of `mg/fill_chests.lua` for now as that requires a few adjustments for filling the chests with the right content, and that's a bit too much to write here in an inconvenient forum post. You won't see any villagers spawning because their spawn blocks are not placed. My first attempts there ended in a severe overcrowding of villagers. Needs finetuning/understanding what BrandonReese did to keep it balanced. But then, this seems to be an open issue on Github as well... Mobs will likely not work very well. A lot changed regarding them. They certainly could use an update as well - as could the goblins. I'm sure the witches from the same modder would feel welcome in the AdventureTest universe, too. ### Fiel of view for monsters vs characters From https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?p=182737#p182737 If it helps any, here is the in_fov code from mobs redo mod that works (self is mob, pos is player position and self.fov is set to 90, self.rotate is usually 0 for front facing mobs): CODE: SELECT ALL ``` in_fov = function(self,pos) -- checks if POS is in self's FOV local yaw = self.object:getyaw() + self.rotate local vx = math.sin(yaw) local vz = math.cos(yaw) local ds = math.sqrt(vx^2 + vz^2) local ps = math.sqrt(pos.x^2 + pos.z^2) local d = { x = vx / ds, z = vz / ds } local p = { x = pos.x / ps, z = pos.z / ps } local an = ( d.x * p.x ) + ( d.z * p.z ) a = math.deg( math.acos( an ) ) ``` Thank you everyone, especially TeTpaAka and Nore. All problems were at last solved, and the code now reports the angle difference between entities like it should! You get 0* when standing right in front of the mob, 90* when standing parallel to either side, 180* when standing behind... whereas flying up or down now accounts pitch correctly on top of that. Here is the final and fully functional version. I hope it will be helpful to more people than just me, if anyone ever needs a simple and efficient FOV scanner for Minetest. ``` local function in_fov (pos1, pos2, yaw, pitch, fov) local function yaw2vec (yaw, pitch) -- we must invert the yaw for x to keep the result from inverting when facing opposite directions (0* becoming 180*) return {x = math.sin(-yaw) * math.cos(pitch), y = math.sin(pitch), z = math.cos(yaw) * math.cos(pitch)} end local function dotproduct (v1, v2) return ((v1.x * v2.x) + (v1.y * v2.y) + (v1.z * v2.z)) end local function angle (v1, v2) return math.deg(math.acos(dotproduct(v1, v2) / (vector.length(v1) * vector.length(v2)))) end local v = vector.subtract(pos2, pos1) print(angle(yaw2vec(yaw, pitch), v)) end ``` here is the final version of the function which I'll be including in my mod, simplified to only 5 lines of code but with the same result: CODE: SELECT ALL ``` -- returns the angle difference between pos1 and pos2, as seen from pos1 at the specified yaw and pitch function pos_to_angle (pos1, pos2, yaw, pitch) -- note: we must invert the yaw for x in yaw_vec, to keep the result from inverting when facing opposite directions (0* becoming 180*) local yaw_vec = {x = -math.sin(yaw) * math.cos(pitch), y = math.sin(pitch), z = math.cos(yaw) * math.cos(pitch)} local pos_subtract = vector.subtract(pos2, pos1) local pos_dotproduct = (yaw_vec.x * pos_subtract.x) + (yaw_vec.y * pos_subtract.y) + (yaw_vec.z * pos_subtract.z) local angle = math.deg(math.acos(pos_dotproduct / (vector.length(yaw_vec) * vector.length(pos_subtract)))) return angle end ```