BigDoors

3-wide and 4-wide double doors for minetest

What does it do?

Provides new models for wider and taller doors, stretching the texture for any existing door into larger sizes. Doors can be 1 block, 1 and a half blocks, or 2 blocks wide, and can be 2, 3 or 4 blocks tall. This provides the ability to cover larger spaces with double doors, and also provides large doors for grander builds.

How do I use it?

Any existing door can be transformed into big doors by registering it:

bigdoors.register("doors:door_wood")

A second argument can also be passed in to configure the door:

bigdoors.register("doors:door_wood", {})

All of the following information is also available in config.lua

Here is the full default config table

If no config is passed or values are unset, this is what they will be

{
	-- Name will override the original name of the door that is transformed
	-- type: string
	name = <original name>,

	-- Should the original 1x2 door be replaced by the 1x2 bigdoor?
	-- type: boolean
	replace_original = false,

	-- Allowed size variations, specifications can only be removed / filtered out
	-- no additional sizes can be added through this setting
	-- type: keyed table
	variations = {

		-- Allowed widths
		-- type: unkeyed table (list)
		widths  = {1, 1.5, 2},

		-- Allowed heights
		-- type: unkeyed table (list)
		heights = {2, 3,   4},

		-- Allowed sizes
		-- type: unkeyed table (list) of width-height pairs
		sizes = {
			{width=1,   height=2},
			{width=1.5, height=2},
			{width=2,   height=2},

			{width=1,   height=3},
			{width=1.5, height=3},
			{width=2,   height=3},

			{width=1,   height=4},
			{width=1.5, height=4},
			{width=2,   height=4},
		},

		-- Only allow doors that maintain the original 1x2 proportion, allows: 1x2, 1.5x3, 2x4
		-- type: boolean
		original_proportions = false,
	}
}

Here is the full default config settings

You can also provide new defaults for this config by setting them in your minetest.conf

If these are unset, this is what the defaults will be

# Should the original 1x2 door be replaced by the 1x2 bigdoor?
bigdoors.replace_original = false

# Only allow doors that maintain the original 1x2 proportion, allows: 1x2, 1.5x3, 2x4
bigdoors.variations.original_proportions = false

# Allowed widths
bigdoors.variations.widths = ( 1, 1.5, 2 )

# Allowed heights
bigdoors.variations.heights = ( 2, 3, 4 )

# Allowed size variations, this is a list of ( width, height ) pairs
bigdoors.variations.sizes = ( ( 1, 2 ), ( 1.5, 2 ), ( 2, 2 ), ( 1, 3 ), ( 1.5, 3 ), ( 2, 3 ), ( 1, 4 ), ( 1.5, 4 ), ( 2, 4 ) )

How does it do it?

This mod copies as much as it can from the original door, replacing only the on_rightclick and removal callbacks, such as after_dig_node and on_destruct.

This mod also provides several new hidden nodes that prevent other nodes being placed that would intersect the door, and to provide a larger hitbox for doors that extend past the natural hitbox range.

If a door cannot be placed, the player will be notified via the HUD display which direction is blocked.

If you choose to replace the original 1x2 door by setting replace_original, which is beneficial because the original door will not pair with big doors of other sizes, then it will register aliases from the original door to the new big door.

Why do I want it?

Normal doors do not fit every scenario, and on larger builds such as castles and mansions they can seem oddly small - not to mention that a door being exactly the height of the player is unrealistic, even for taller people.

Some of the proportions possible with these doors do not work with every texture, but I believe it is up to the builder's discretion to choose, and it's better to provide as full of a range as possible - these doors will give your builders the freedom to use and combine doors of sizes that were never possible before, but were always desired.