Luanti Modding: 01 Intro

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00:00Welcome to this Luanti course.

00:02I'm Nathan, and I'll be your host.

00:04This course is designed to teach you how to make your own mods and games for the Luanti

00:08engine, formerly known as Mindtest.

00:11If you have previous experience with Luanti and coding, you can safely jump ahead to the

00:15first chapter.

00:16Otherwise, stick around and you'll learn how to install Luanti, games, and mods.

00:21So what is Luanti?

00:22Well, Luanti is a free, open-source, voxel game engine, available for most operating

00:27systems.

00:28You can download games and mods to play locally, or connect to one of many servers and play

00:33without needing to download anything.

00:35Luanti is composed of two basic components, the engine, Luanti, and a game, of which there

00:41are plenty to choose from.

00:43Games can be extended by adding mods.

00:45Now, games are just a collection of mods, so once you've started writing mods, it's not

00:50very difficult to start making your very own custom game.

00:54Luanti is free and requires no account or internet access to play.

00:58So you can download and install on as many devices as you want.

01:02This makes it infinitely scalable and perfect for the classroom or kiddos.

01:07Luanti can comfortably run on some pretty old hardware, although you might have to turn

01:11off some of the eye candy.

01:12Luanti also has a large community of developers and modders that are very helpful when trying

01:17to figure out how to do something.

01:19Just be polite when asking for help.

01:21Remember, nobody's being paid to do any of this.

01:24The Lua programming language has a fairly low barrier of entry and is used for minigames

01:28and non-game applications, meaning there's lots of documentation available and the knowledge

01:33you gain can be carried on into other projects.

01:35So let's download and install Luanti.

01:38Visit luanti.org backslash downloads and select the most appropriate package.

01:43Follow standard installation procedures.

01:45Luanti will let you know when there's an update available, although depending on your operating

01:49system and method of installation, an update manager might handle that for you.

01:54If not, you'll just have to visit this page again and download the new version.

01:59New versions of the engine can be safely installed without any worries of data loss,

02:03though it is worth noting that backward compatibility is not always guaranteed.

02:08A future update could break a game or mod that hasn't been updated in a long time.

02:13Upon launching Luanti for the first time, we'll be greeted with a little message prompting

02:17us to install a game.

02:19Clicking the install a game button will take us to the game section of the in-game content

02:23browser.

02:24We'll install my test game, and then click on the mods tab and install a mod.

02:28I'll search for one of my own mods and install that.

02:31While there is a lot of content available to download in-game, there is more content on

02:35the forms that hasn't made its way over.

02:38Manually installing varies depending on installation method and operating system.

02:42Now that we have a game and a mod installed, let's create our first world.

02:46Click new, enter a name and a seed, and check any options you want, then click create.

02:51With the newly created world selected, click on select mods, and double click on the mods

02:56you want to enable on the world.

02:58Click save, and then play game to start your new world.

03:01Controls are fairly standard, WASD to move, right and left click to interact with the world.

03:07You can see all the controls and change them as you please in the keyboard and mouse section

03:12of the settings page.

03:13The last thing we need to cover is the code editor.

03:16I'll be using Pulsar, but if you have a code editor that you're already using, feel free

03:21to keep using it.

03:22Pulsar is also open source and available on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

03:26Download and install the appropriate package for your system, then launch Pulsar.

03:30I'm using a few packages to make development easier.

03:33You can find those packages in the preferences page.

03:36To open the preferences page, use the keyboard shortcut control plus comma or edit preferences.

03:43Click on the install button, then search for Lua.

03:45I'm using language-lua, linter-lua, and autocomplete-lua.

03:53Some of these packages may require other packages to run, but they'll prompt you to install those

03:57when you click the install button.

03:59Well, that should be everything we need to get started.

04:02In the next chapter, we'll be looking at creating our first mod.

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