WorldEditAdditions Changelog

It's about time I started a changelog! This will serve from now on as the main changelog for WorldEditAdditions.

Note to self: See the bottom of this file for the release template text.

v1.13: Untitled update (unreleased)

Add //sfactor (selection factor) - Selection Tools by @VorTechnix are finished for now.
Add //mface (measure facing), //midpos (measure middle position), //msize (measure size), //mtrig (measure trigonometry) - Measuring Tools implemented by @VorTechnix.
Add //airapply for applying commands only to air nodes in the defined region
Add //noise2d for perturbing terrain with multiple different noise functions
Add //noiseapply2d for running commands on columns where a noise value is over a threshold
Add //ellipsoid2 which creates an ellipsoid that fills the defined region
Use luacheck to find and fix a large number of bugs and other issues [code quality from now on will be significantly improved]
Multiple commands: Allow using quotes ("thing", 'thing') to quote values when splitting
//layers: Add optional slope constraint (inspired by WorldPainter)
//bonemeal: Add optional node list constraint
//walls: Add optional thickness argument
//sstack: Add human-readable approx volumes of regions in the selection stack

//airapply: Improve error handling, fix safe_region node counter
//floodfill: Fix crash caused by internal refactoring of the Queue data structure
//spop: Fix wording in displayed message
Sapling alias compatibility:
- Correct alias of default:sapling from oak to apple (since it produces apples)
- moretrees:apple_tree_sapling_ongen from apple to apple_moretrees
- Add plum → plumtree:sapling
- Add holly ⇒ hollytree:sapling
//replacemix: Improve error handling to avoid crashes (thanks, Jonathon for reporting via Discord!)
Cloud wand: Improve chat message text

Add //spush, //spop, and //sstack
Add //srect (select rectangle), //scol (select column), //scube (select cube) - thanks, @VorTechnix!
Add //scloud (select point cloud), //scentre (select centre node(s)), //srel (select relative) - thanks, @VorTechnix!
Add //smake (selection make) - thanks, @VorTechnix!
Significantly refactored backend utility functions (more to come in future updates)
Add new universal chance parsing
- Any <chance> can now either be a 1-in-N number (e.g. 4, 10), or a percentage chance (e.g. 50%, 10%).
- Caveat: Percentages are converted to a 1-in-N chance, but additionally that number is rounded down in some places
//torus, //hollowtorus: Add optional new axes
//torus, //ellipsoid: Add optional hollow keyword - @VorTechnix
//multi: Add curly brace syntax for nesting command calls (more information)
//erode: Add new river erosion algorithm for filling in potholes and removing pillars

Add //scale (currently experimental)
- Scale operations that scale up and down at the same time are split into 2 separate operations automatically (scaling up is always performed first)
//count: Make numbers human-readable
- Tip: Use a monospace font for the chat window, and the columns will be aligned!
Add //hollow for hollowing out areas (a step towards parity with Minecraft WorldEdit)
//subdivide: Improve performance of initial chunk counting algorithm - it should get started on the job much quicker now (especially on large regions)
//subdivide: Fix a bug where the entire defined region was emerged all at once instead of in chunks
//subdivide: Fix performance & memory usage issues
- Fix passing arguments to the command being executed
- If you encounter any other issues with it over large areas (particularly 2000x150x2000 and larger), please let me know
Bugfix: Fix obscure crash in calls to human_size ("unknown" will now be returned if passed junk)
//many can now be used with commands with no arguments.
//conv, //erode, //fillcaves: Treat liquids as air
Add new cloud wand
//conv, //erode: Minor refactoring to improve code clarity

//maze: Fix some parts of generated mazes staying solid
//maze, //maze3d: Allow non-number seeds (existing seeds aren't affected - they will still produce identical output)
//many: Improve format of progress messages, add ETA
//subdivide: Make asynchronous, and use minetest.emerge_area() to ensure areas are loaded before executing on a subdivision chunk
- This will ensure that //subdivideing enormous regions should now function as expected. Want to level an entire rainforest with //subdivide and //clearcut? Now you can! :D
Add //line for drawing simple lines

Add //many for executing a command many times in a row
Add experimental //erode command
Add //fillcaves command - fills in all air nodes beneath non air-nodes
Add //forest command for quickly generating forests, and //saplingaliases to compliment it
Add //ellipsoidapply: Like //cubeapply, but clips the result to an ellipsoid that is the size of the defined region.
Fix some minor bugs and edge cases
//subdivide: Print status update when completing the last chunk
//count: Optimise by removing nested for loops

Update //multi to display human readable times (e.g. 2.11mins instead of 126600ms)
Far wand: Notify player when setting pos1 and pos2
Make timings more accurate (use minetest.get_us_time() instead of os.clock())
Add experimental //subdivide command
Attempt to fix a crash on startup due to a dependency issue (#21)

Added //layers (like WorldEdit for Minecraft's //naturalize)
Added //convolve (advanced terrain smoothing inspired by image editors)
Added far wand (like the regular WorldEdit wand, but with a configurable range that can extend to 100s of blocks) [/list]

The text below is used as a template when making releases.

INTRO

See below for instructions on how to update.

CHANGELOG HERE

Updating depends on how you installed WorldEditAdditions.

UI in Minetest: There should be an update button for you to click in the mod menu
ContentDB: Download the latest update from here
Git: cd to the WorldEditAdditions directory and run git pull (Important: Recently, WorldEditAdditions changed the default branch from master to main. If you're updating from before then, you'll need to re-clone the mod or else do some git-fu)

After installing the update, don't forget to restart your client and / or server.