Difference between revisions of "Development Tools"

Revision as of 19:48, 19 February 2020

This article lists various free software tools which help in development of Minetest and mods for Minetest.

NodeBoxEditor: Build node boxes by dragging their edges.
MTS Editor: A program to create, view and edit Minetest schematics, but it supports other file formats (e.g. Minecraft schematics) as well
Schematic Creator: A Java program to create schematics
Model Creator: A Java program to create meshes

LuaCmd [luacmd]: luacmd server command which allows you to run a single Lua statement
QA-Block [qa_block]: Adds a Quality Assurance block which you use to run various checker scripts like listing items with missing description (including your own) and browse the global Lua namespace
DevToys: Modpacks with lots of example nodes (for testing engine features) and a few tools to manipulate nodes

L-System Tree Utility [ltool]: Helps you creating L-system trees which you can spawn with minetest.spawn_tree
Schematic Editor [schemedit]: Advanced tool for creating and placing schematics
Convert table schematic to .mts [saveschems]: Tool for converting schematics from Lua table format to MTS files
WorldEdit: Primarily a tool for editing large parts of the world, what's interesting for developers is that it includes a few basic schematic commands (//mtschemcreate, etc.)

List Items [listitems]: Server commands for listing and searching the IDs of registered items and entities
Find Biome [findbiome]: Server command for finding a biome and teleporting to it
Inventory Check [inventorycheck]: Investigate the inventory of any player
Inspector [inspector]: Reveal the item/entity definition, metadata and param1/param2 of whatever you punch

Stopwatch [stopwatch]: Benchmarking utility to quickly benchmark portions of Lua code

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+* [https://github.com/FaceDeer/update_translations update_translations]: Python scripts to create and update mod translation files
 * [https://notabug.org/pgimeno/minetest/src/translation-toolchain/util/findtext.lua findtext.lua]: Create mod translation template (buggy!) ([https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=23330 see also])
 * [https://notabug.org/pgimeno/minetest/src/translation-toolchain/util/updatetext.lua updatetext.lua]: Update mod translation template (buggy!) ([https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=23330 see also])