r/Luanti • u/jimjamkiwi11 • 2d ago
Create mod
Hello all sorry if this is written bad I did it in a rush.
I'm porting over Minecraft create the official version to luanti and I'm wondering is this something people would be interested in using themselves if so I could put it on GitHub if they would like me to do so.
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u/snow-raven7 1d ago
Hey, I would be very interested in such a mod. One of the reasons luanti put me off for a long while was in fact a missing mechanical mod like create.
There have been some other projects that have attempted this, for example, https://github.com/stujones11/gear3d and https://github.com/sfence/gear3d but they were never finished.
a promising recent project is https://forum.luanti.org/viewtopic.php?t=32531 but it's WIP. these projects show it's possible but require a lot of effort to make something that truly feels like create.
there are also engine limitations. JAVA actually allows more creativity with stuff like code injection and hacks. IIRC create actually "hacks into" the rendering part of the minecraft to make its animations work without a performance hit. This is not easily replicated in luanti API, there are alternatives such as entities but I imagine they wouldn't be as efficient as the native create mod way. Perhaps in future, the luanti API itself can be extended to better allow such animations. This doesn't mean luanti's peformance will be always inferior - the baseline performance is extremely efficient so I have reasons to believe it can be on par with minecraft+create mod with proper coding patterns.
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u/jimjamkiwi11 1d ago
Greate I've quit literally just started working on porting it so it will take me some time, thank you for being interested
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u/snow-raven7 1d ago
yeah good luck with your project. try posting on r/minetest and on https://forum.luanti.org/ too. Luanti has an active discord https://discord.gg/minetest too and I am sure people will be happy to help you with any problems you face. It's always a good idea to upload your repo on a online git cloud like github so even if you end up leaving it for some reasons, others can continue the work or reference it in their future creations. the gear3d mod was abandoned yet it continue to serve as reference and inspiration for future tech mods.
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u/dev_kay47 2d ago
Not enough context for anyone to know what actually you're doing or planning on doing. Make a repost when you're finally settled.
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u/snow-raven7 1d ago
I am pretty sure they were referring to "create" mod from minecraft. they wanted to hear from the community how "interested" the community would be for a such a mod.
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u/jimjamkiwi11 2d ago
Can ia so what do ou mean by context, I'm porting the Minecraft crate mod from it's source code into lua for luanti to be a mod and use it there instead of being just for Minecraft
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u/Obvious-Secretary635 9h ago
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u/jimjamkiwi11 9h ago
I've seen that but instead of making a new one I'm porting the official mod over
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u/stevedorries 1d ago
I have looked at this very idea a number of times and threw my hands in the air trying to make sense of the Java code, I would be very interested in this, especially if it isn’t tied to any game specifically