Lua Voxel Area Entities (Alpha)

True voxel area entities written in Lua.

What is this?

LVAE is an API for mods to use to create large structures that are not locked to the node grid and can be moved or rotated like an entity.

What about meshnode?

Meshnode is not an API. On top of that, it lacks support for many drawtypes and nodes. It is also very outdated (released in 2013). LVAE can be used to make a similar mod (and one will be released in the near future).

Usage

Add lvae as a dependency in your mod.
Use LVAE(pos) to create a new LVAE at position pos (returns a luaentity).
The returned object has methods mirroring those listed in the Minetest API for world interaction, such as set_node, get_node, etc.
Positions are relative to the parent position.
Example:

local lvae = LVAE({x = 0, y = 10, z = 0})
lvae:set_node({x = 0, y = 0, z = 0}, {name = "default:cobble"})
print(lvae:get_node({x = 0, y = 0, z = 0}).name) -- Will return "default:cobble"

Todo

Logic and interaction

• Implement proper placing/digging logic
• World-aligned textures
• Node metadata/inventories
• on_* hooks

Drawtypes

• Fix nodeboxes (they are far from perfect)
• plantlike_rooted
• glasslikeliquidlevel (paramtype2)
• glasslike_framed
  I do not intend to implement liquids any time soon, but it should be possible.

API

• Object flags (interactable, metadata, etc)
• Implement as many node methods as possible
• Import nodes from VoxelManip