Help with animated texture

[Melkor]

I'm trying to convert a texture pack, but the problem I have is that some of them are a sequence of images and that doesn't work well in Minetest

corasTenthTry suggested that I use override.txt (documentation here: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/bl ... -overrides), but I can't find anything related to animation.

I found some posts that talk about this here:
viewtopic.php?t=18077
viewtopic.php?t=6767
but they don't seem to be the solution to the problem
I think that the animated textures existing in the game are hardcoded into the engine and there is not a option to put others (i hope somebody proves me wrong)

screenshot:

[Melkor]

Sorry, i'm a bit frustrated

[Skamiz Kazzarch]

i hope somebody proves me wrong

No, sorry.
Minetests texture pack support is... rather basic.

The only good news I can offer you is that animations are controlled from mods, not from the engine.
Relevant Lua API: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/bl ... in=1#L9039

For anything fancier then straight texture replacement you will probably need to turn you texturepack into a mod, at which point it can't be used when playing on a server.

[Melkor]

Ok well, is a relief that now i know that there isn't much that i can do about it. Im not going to do a mod. Thanks

[Krock]

Which node is affected? And: what is its full texture string? How does your texture look like?

[Melkor]

Which node is affected? And: what is its full texture string? How does your texture look like?

Sorry for the delay in replying, but I was gathering information.
This is all I could find so far
I've been converting a texture pack for the other games for a while now.
These screenshots are from the minetest subgame, the furnace works fine here, but not in mineclonia, nor voxellibre, but I guess this is their problem.
the affected nodes are:
default:stone_with_iron
default:stone_with_gold
default:stone_with_diamond
default:ice
But it also happens with animated items in the inventory or on the ground, in this case they are inverted downwards

in the image below you can see how the textures look, probably due to image compression, in the ice node you can't see the same problem as in the others

Sorry but i don't know what is full texture string (i googled it and did not understand it)

[TenPlus1]

@Melkor - Those nodes aren't animated by default so when given an animated texture it will appear like in the screenshot. The proper way to animate them is to override the actual node and add a new tiles option e.g.

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minetest.override_item("default:stone_with_iron", {
	tiles = {{
		name = "default_stone_with_iron_animated.png",
		animation = {
			type = "vertical_frames", aspect_w = 16, aspect_h = 16, length = 1
		} -- width and height above depend on texture dimensions.
	}},
})

[Melkor]

@Melkor - Those nodes aren't animated by default so when given an animated texture it will appear like in the screenshot. The proper way to animate them is to override the actual node and add a new tiles option e.g.

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minetest.override_item("default:stone_with_iron", {
	tiles = {{
		name = "default_stone_with_iron_animated.png",
		animation = {
			type = "vertical_frames", aspect_w = 16, aspect_h = 16, length = 1
		} -- width and height above depend on texture dimensions.
	}},
})

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minetest.override_item("default:stone_with_iron", {
	tiles = {{
		name = "default_mineral_iron.png",
		animation = {
			type = "vertical_frames", aspect_w = 32, aspect_h = 1600, length = 1
		} -- width and height above depend on texture dimensions.
	}},
})

does this go in override.txt? doesn't work

[TenPlus1]

@Melkor - Unfortunately it will only work inside of a mod, one with a dependency on the game you are using in mod.conf

[Melkor]

ok... thank you

[TenPlus1]

@Melkor - aspect_h is the height of a frame, so it will be 32 same as aspect_w, here's an example mod:

Create a folder called 'animated_ores' and add a 'textures' folder inside containing your new textures.

Create an 'init.lua' file and add this:

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minetest.override_item("default:stone_with_iron", {
	tiles = {{
		name = "default_mineral_iron.png",
		animation = {
			type = "vertical_frames", aspect_w = 32, aspect_h = 32, length = 1
		}
	}},
})

Create a 'mod.conf' file and add this:

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name = animated_ores
description = Animates default ore blocks.
depends = default

Open a new world, enable mod and your iron ore should now be animated :)

[Melkor]

Ok i will do it :)