[Mod] Super Duper Walls! [sdwalls]

[Linuxdirk]

Super Duper Walls! or SD Walls for short adds modular flexible walls to Minetest.

Functionality

The mod adds walls from various different base nodes like cobblestone or stone bricks. The walls automatically connect to all other walls created by SD Walls.

In addition to that wall pillars are automatically created where applicable.

• At all corners
• At all T-junctions
• At all wall ends
• If the wall stands alone
• If the wall is surrounded by other walls

If a wall is not in one of the above positions nothing will happen to it and it remains as a wall.
If you want to use a pillar/wall where usually a wall/pillar would be placed just punch the wall while wielding a wall. The punched wall will then toggle between the pillar form and the wall form.

Please note: This toggled type will be updated according to the neighbors when placing a wall adjacent to the toggled wall and has to be re-set as wanted at no cost.


Various different walls connected in various ways.

Crafting the walls added by SD Walls is similar to crafting the normal walls but minus one node.



Putting a wall in the crafting grid returns one of the base nodes, too.

Obtaining the mod

Depends: default, moreblocks?
License (all): GPLv3 or later,
Download: Latest version (older version: 0.4.17)
… or better use Git: https://gitlab.com/4w/sdwalls.git

[ChimneySwift]

This looks really cool.

Nice one.

[DS-minetest]

Eh, the wood wall has the same recipe as the minetest_game/mods/doors trapdoor.
In the video, the mod seems nice, it's so simple.

[ExeterDad]

I like them. And the video as well.

[Linuxdirk]

Eh, the wood wall has the same recipe as the minetest_game/mods/doors trapdoor.
In the video, the mod seems nice, it's so simple.

Of ffs … you’re right. I was so focused on getting the walls done that I totally forgot about all other aspects of the game. I just altered the recipe and documentation. It should now work with all Minetest Game mods.

And simple, yes, that was my intention. Easy to understand and simple to use super duper cool walls! :)

[sorcerykid]

I've been dreaming of a mod like this for ages! Thus far I've been making do with normal walls, but this is a much superior alternative from an aesthetic standpoint..

Also, I got a chuckle looking at that Github issue. I've gotten in the habit of publishing "git diffs" so that users can manually backport features and bugfixes that rightfully should be patched in 0.4.x ;)

[Linuxdirk]

I've been dreaming of a mod like this for ages! Thus far I've been making do with normal walls, but this is a much superior alternative from an aesthetic standpoint..

Haha, yes, me to :) I always wondered why this wasn’t already implemented in the default walls mod until I implemented it by myself figuring out the best practice on updating, screw over and start again several times during the weekend.

The wall design is based the walls of on my soon-to-be discontinued xFurniture mod.

Also, I got a chuckle looking at that Github issue.

Regarding development decisions I’m in the shrug off state.

[v-rob]

Wait, disconnected boxes are going to be a thing? That will be so useful for whatever awesome ideas I had (I forgot what they were because I thought they were impossible to do easily :/)

[Linuxdirk]

Now supporting moreblocks:


Cactus bricks, grey bricks, and iron stone bricks

Of course all connectable with the other walls.

[Linuxdirk]

I think of dropping support for half of the wooden walls, or to be more specific, all walls made from the “raw tree nodes” (the tree trunks). I’m not sure about dropping the planks, too.

I want to focus on wall materials and wooden planks are not the material one usually builds walls from, right?

[Lone_Wolf]

I think of dropping support for half of the wooden walls, or to be more specific, all walls made from the “raw tree nodes” (the tree trunks). I’m not sure about dropping the planks, too.

I want to focus on wall materials and wooden planks are not the material one usually builds walls from, right?

Give it a setting? People sometimes choose what wall to use for their build by the looks. Not the material

[Linuxdirk]

Yes, actually you’re right. So let’s configure all the things :)



Those are logical groups not node groups. Readme was updated, too.

https://gitlab.com/4w/sdwalls#configuration

Conclusion: If anyone used wooden wall types before or plans doing so: you need to add sdwalls_use_default_wood = true to your minetest.conf file.

[Linuxdirk]

All walls and pillars now connect to their respective base nodes (no interconnections between different wall base nodes and full nodes are made, e.g. cobblestone walls and stone brick nodes do not connect). All other features are untouched.



To disable this functionality set sdwalls_connect_to_base = false in your minetest.conf.

[Linuxdirk]

Walls can now configured to not connect to walls of different types.



Make sure to read the usage instructions for this feature.

Get from GitLab or wait till Content DB is updated.

[Linuxdirk]

Please note: The most recent Git version is only compatible with Minetest 5.0.0-dev. A Git tag for 0.4.17 was created. See first post.

[Linuxdirk]

As you might see from the first post screenshots the wall design now resembles the default wall design. All other functionality remains exactly the same.

Overall the walls are 2/16 higher than the default walls.



Read here why.

[Linuxdirk]

Walls were updated yet another time. This time the pillars were altered to resemble the original xFurniture walls style but still be flexible enough for the SD Walls logic. See screenshots in first post to see the new style.

An update should be published through the CDB soon. Or pull the latest version from GitLab.