VoxelManipulator-based transactions are used to hopefully speed up
scanning and replacing of networks of conductors when receptors start or
stop driving signals into them.
Rather than calling out through the Lua-to-C API for each node that
needs to be read or written, a group of map reads (and optionally
writes) can be grouped into a transaction. Access to map data within the
transaction is provided at high speed by means of VoxelManipulators.
Once the reads and writes are finished, the transaction can be committed
or aborted.
A VoxelManipulator, when asked to read a mapblock, in addition to making
that mapblock available to the caller, also pulls it into the server’s
map cache, thus making get_node calls in the immediate future succeed.
This has the dual advantages that not every mapblock containing a
Mesecons circuit need remain loaded at all times (rather mapblocks can
be loaded on demand as signals are sent), and that the server need not
bother running ABMs and ticking entities within those mapblocks that are
loaded due to Mesecons signalling.
The update_autoconnect function had to be abstracted away from the
default wires, any kind of wire can now register autoconnect hooks,
which should make having multiple different wire types much easier.
mesecons_mvps, mesecons_receiver and mesecons_random made use of
update_autoconnect, their code was also adapted. This also fixes a
receiver bug: If a receiver was placed with a onstate receptor next
to it (but not the wall lever / button that caused the receiver to
appear) the receiver didn't turn on in the past.
Also move documentation for mesecon wire into mesecons_wire.
Disabling LuaJIT for user code enables normal working of debug.sethook() even for loops. The drawback is that that code will run more slowly.
The fourth parameter of string.find indicates whether the second parameter should be interpreted literally (true) or as a pattern (false). Allowing patterns enables DoS attacks, but it's possible to
allow literal matching with little effort, by disallowing the function only if the fourth parameter (plain mode) is not `true`.
prohibited, remove pcall and xpcall, fix global lookup of "jit"
variable, correct error locations
Thanks to @ShadowNinja and @gamemanj for fixing this in #241
This is a major speedup for large mesecon machines / structures.
Force-loaded areas are stored in a file to be persistent over server
reboots. By default, areas are unloaded after 10 minutes (600s) without
usage, this can be customized with the mesecon.forceload_timeout
setting. Please turn max_forceloaded_blocks up for better performance.
I've implemented a new door API in minetest_game that
performs all the needed things to assure doors are
properly openend and closed, without mods needing to
know the inner details of what needs to be done.
Mesecons can just fetch a reference to the door object
and call the appropriate open or close method, which
simplifies this code a lot.
For compatibility, this code retains the old code path
and tests whether the new API is available, so this
code remains functional if the new API is not available.
Since the metal trapdoor was only recently added, I added
it to the new API codepath only, it's unlikely to be
present on older versions of minetest_game anyway.
As a benefit from the new door API, there is now
absolutely no more accidental switching closed trapdoors
to open on power off, which could happen with the
old method - since that was just a simple toggle.
Playing stereo sounds positionally in OpenAL causes it to play
the sounds unattenuated - same volume for all distances. This
shouldn't happen, and makes noteblocks unneccesarily loud from
very far away.
Convert all noteblock samples to mono, 22kHz 64kbit.
This makes development of new features easier, as documentation can automatically be updated on the website without modifying the website's code!
Every mod that has nodes in the mesecons modpack has a "doc" folder that contains subfolders with recipe, description and preview of the block. The website will discover which documentation is available
by reading the documentation.json file.
