Minetest-WorldEditAdditions/worldeditadditions_commands/commands/floodfill.lua

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worldedit.register_command("floodfill", {
	params = "[<replace_node> [<radius>]]",
	description = "Floods all connected nodes of the same type starting at pos1 with <replace_node> (which defaults to `water_source`), in a sphere with a radius of <radius> (which defaults to 20).",
	privs = { worldedit = true },
	require_pos = 1,
	parse = function(params_text)
		if not params_text then params_text = "" end
		local found, _, replace_node, radius = params_text:find("([a-z:_\\-]+)%s+([0-9]+)")
		
		if found == nil then
			found, _, replace_node = params_text:find("([a-z:_\\-]+)")
			radius = 20
		end
		if found == nil then
			replace_node = "default:water_source"
		end
		radius = tonumber(radius)
		
		replace_node = worldedit.normalize_nodename(replace_node)
		
		if not replace_node then
			worldedit.player_notify(name, "Error: Invalid node name.")
			return false
		end
		
		return true, replace_node, radius
	end,
	nodes_needed = function(name, replace_node, radius)
		-- Volume of a hemisphere
		return math.ceil(((4 * math.pi * (tonumber(radius) ^ 3)) / 3) / 2)
	end,
	func = function(name, replace_node, radius)
		local start_time = os.clock()
		local nodes_replaced = worldedit.floodfill(worldedit.pos1[name], radius, replace_node)
		local time_taken = os.clock() - start_time
		
		if nodes_replaced == false then
			return false, "Error: The search node is the same as the replace node."
		end
		
		minetest.log("action", name .. " used //floodfill at " .. worldeditadditions.vector.tostring(worldedit.pos1[name]) .. ", replacing " .. nodes_replaced .. " nodes in " .. time_taken .. "s")
		return true, nodes_replaced .. " nodes replaced in " .. time_taken .. "s"
	end
})