Hints themselves have not been tided up
much, but this makes the project of fixing the
hints for each mod a little more manageable
and breaks up the hard-to-navigate single
monolithic hints file in the old guide mod.
The old guide mod has now been completely
retired. Hints are now a full-fledged API-layer
standard feature.
- Move hint handling down to API layer
- Simplify stat data; old nc_stats counting can
be moved out to a separate mod. We only
need whether the player has seen or not.
- Invert inventory tab responsibility.
- Merge witness system in from crafting.
TODO:
- Redistribute hint registration responsibility
to individual mods.
- Test external mod compat.
- Retire old nc_stats and nc_guide systems.
- Add a way to reset hints.
Hughes Ross has started to work on a PR for this
(https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/10140)
but it doesn't look like it will be ready until 5.4 at
least, and we will support pre-5.4 versions for
some time yet. The ability for TP artists to
override special_tiles is necessary to allow things
like flowing liquid textures to be customized in
texture packs.
Add a hack for these, similar to how we did the
inventory/wield image hacks.
Note that we are also forcing overrides for special
tiles, since there may be cases where we reuse a
base image without modifiers but TP artists may
still want an independent override.
By restricting the recipes we check based
on the name of the central object being
checked, we can do many fewer craft
checks per item and avoid expensive
checks.
Register a "rootmatch" property for all
recipes that represents a broader, quicker
test for recipe eligibility. False positives are
allowed but false negatives are not.
Since most recipes are eligible, we can
use this to build an index for fast lookups
of subsets of recipes to run and skip most
of the other ones.
Place as an empty stack node (soon to be
replaced by the server as a non-empty one
anyway) so laggy clients can right-click with
dirt earlier.
This should mitigate Kimapr's high-latency
mass tree farming woes...?
- Lenses no longer produce light from sun at all;
artificial light is always needed.
- Grass and trees survive, don't do dual-time check.
- Breeze sounds work in twilight.
- Sponge drying only requires twilight, now also can
happen under artificial light.
- Peat to grass happens under twilight.
- No day/night cycle, no sun/moon.
- Get rid of clouds too.
- Skybox is now 100% texture-packable.
- Natural light diminishes with depth.
Night-time no longer disrupts gameplay topside, but
skylights are no longer useful to an infinite depth and
artificial light is necessary for all deep mining.
- Make planted eggcorns evident via visual and
description; it was too easy for new players to
think they screwed up the recipe.
- Leaves inherit growth rate of trunk.
- Growth particles at tip of growing trunk.
- Code cleanup, refactoring, break up large files.
- Minor texture adjustments.
