#Luanti 5.16 is here! This release contains many smaller enhancements and bug fixes, including rendering and input improvements
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mastodon 4.7.3Formerly Minetest. Official account for Luanti, an open source game creation platform. Follow for Luanti news and content. Run by @rubenwardy@hachyderm.io
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Can you help #Luanti out with a couple €€ per month?
Monthly donations make the project more sustainable and help us budget and pay for ongoing expenses like infrastructure.
We'd love to have paid developers working on Luanti one day, recurring donations help with that too!
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ContentDB is currently under a DDoS attack and so may be unresponsive and not load. I am currently unavailable to fix this, please have patience
We are looking into the possibility of creating a #Luanti for Edu/Kids edition which would be a new app on the play store and a new download from luanti.org. It will (1) provide tools for parents/teachers to manage kids (2) achieve a lower age rating, aiming for age 6.
We're looking to get in touch with someone who know about age ratings and our obligations. Perhaps someone from #IARC/#USK/another board who also knows about open source. Does anyone have any connections we could talk to?
#Luanti 5.15.0 is here!
This time, we have rendering performance improvements, dynamic shadows on Android, a Windows installer, and many small enhancements.
⚠️ We're 900 € short on funds for our stand at #FOSDEM
FOSDEM is the largest free and open source software conference in Europe. Attending FOSDEM allows us to promote #Luanti, bring the community together, and connect with other open source projects.
If you can, please help by giving to our non-profit fundraiser. Any contribution helps lighten the load
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The vulnerability allows a malicious mod to escape the sandbox. It requires you to install the mod, connecting to servers is safe
https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/security/advisories/GHSA-g596-mf82-w8c3
#Luanti 5.14.0 has been released!
Quality-of-life features and performance improvements are the name of the game this time around.
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@standmit@mastodon.luanti.ru
I think you have a rather cynical view here.
The benefit of a paid developer is that it unlocks time - rather than being done as a hobby, it's their job. It also allows us to prioritize areas which volunteer developers either do not have time or do not want to work on. Reviewing pull requests would be part of the responsibilities
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@homegrown@social.growyourown.services @alexchapman@vee.seedy.cc
Unfortunately, the accessibility options are limited to stuff like font size, contrast, and reducing animations. See Settings > Accessibility.
Third party mods are available for subtitles and audio hints. We'd love to have more but just don't have enough developers or time
One of our long term goals is to introduce a new gui system, which would help with accessibility as it would allow GUIs to be more responsive, but this has been stalled for many years
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@alexchapman@vee.seedy.cc @homegrown@social.growyourown.services
We're actively pursuing grant opportunities so hopefully we'll be able to find one to fund improvements in this area
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@Dirkfried
We're considering publishing a version specifically for education which does not have the server list and is limited to a subset of ContentDB. But this does depend on the feedback we're given
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@antimundo@mastodon.gamedev.place
We survive through very generous donations of time by our contributors :)
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@dirk
See the following thread for more context: https://forum.luanti.org/viewtopic.php?t=31724
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@f4grx@chaos.social
As for more graphics effects - our priority is unlocking more capabilities for game developers. For example, it would be great to see a materials API. This would allow game and mod developers greater control over how their worlds look https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/issues/8854
There's the following PR with some new visual effects: https://github.com/luanti-org/luanti/pull/15417
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@f4grx@chaos.social
Lua mods currently can't add new effects, but you can always make engine mods. For example, there was an engine mod for screen space reflections a while back
https://github.com/GreenXenith/minetest/tree/bfs_ssr
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@f4grx@chaos.social
Have you explored the Effects tab of the settings menu? We already support dynamic shadows, tone mapping, dynamic exposure, bloom, and volumetric lighting
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@standmit@mastodon.luanti.ru
We also do respond to pull requests and resolve community issues, just look at recent release posts! It's just not as fast as we'd like due to availability
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@Moir@mastodon.nz
Not built in but we're working on it
This is running using steam input to convert gamepad to keyboard and mouse, which works well: https://blog.rubenwardy.com/2022/12/02/minetest-steam-deck/
