A little complaint about the moderators

[oliverrook 2]

Ok. I just had a topic deleted for what I believe is a personal opinion of the moderator.

The topic was about clay generation. After my last post, which explained why I didn't think i was a priority, a moderator, who had given me a very rude reply about how I supposedly thought they should drop everything, deleted the topic.

I think this is unfair and rude.

(*I know I sound like a total ASS Hat, but still.*)

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

This sure is ironic.

I deleted that post.

And I'm not just a forum mod. I'm a game developer. I deleted your post because coloured clay isn't going to be in TFC.

[transcengopher 349]

coloured clay isn't going to be in TFC.

I will try to do this again here. Dunk, is it possible for dirt, sand and gravel colours to be handled through the same means grass and leaves colours are?

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

No, because the colours and such aren't determined by the metadata of the object, which would be needed for sand. This would mean that picking it up would remove it's colours. Colour for grass is climate specific, not item specific

You could only do that if it was to be be purely visual, and bioxx doesn't want that. He wants glass to have tints based on the parent sand

[transcengopher 349]

He wants glass to have tints based on the parent sand

Doesn't this require to rewrite lighting system in a way?

As for sand, no big deal, but with dirt and especially gravel this might be a neat idea. Or not? I mean, less block id's.

[Leosallespoli 338]

Doesn't this require to rewrite lighting system in a way?

As for sand, no big deal, but with dirt and especially gravel this might be a neat idea. Or not? I mean, less block id's.

I guess not, if the shadow of the glass remains as vanilla and if the tint is purely aesthetic... Would be something like a portal...

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

Doesn't this require to rewrite lighting system in a way?

As for sand, no big deal, but with dirt and especially gravel this might be a neat idea. Or not? I mean, less block id's.

no, theres a stained glass mod that doesn't rewrite lighting

[Leosallespoli 338]

BTW, modding lighting is just TOO MUCH PAIN!

[transcengopher 349]

BTW, modding lighting is just TOO MUCH PAIN!

I know. Mojang themselves seem to think that way. Because 1.4 should be introducing new iteration of lighting systems, but it was taken down.

[Leosallespoli 338]

I know. Mojang themselves seem to think that way. Because 1.4 should be introducing new iteration of lighting systems, but it was taken down.

yeah... If they haven't even touched CC and Notch dismissed that chance, lighting is too far

[Dante80 101]

I will try to do this again here. Dunk, is it possible for dirt, sand and gravel colours to be handled through the same means grass and leaves colours are?

Nooooo, more textures / block IDs = more creative options for texturing !!

[Enzer 60]

Doesn't this require to rewrite lighting system in a way?

As for sand, no big deal, but with dirt and especially gravel this might be a neat idea. Or not? I mean, less block id's.

The problem with stained glass if when you are looking through multiple blocks lined up in a row that are all different color, with Minecraft's rendering system as it is, z-buffering begins to shit itself. Basically there are two ways to do it in that case. One way makes it look nice, but your frame rate will tank and performance is going to die, or it looks really really bad and your game still gets a performance impact, but not as bad.

Now what the majority of the stained glass mods do is the smart thing in that they tell the game not to render any other glass that is present on the other side of the block. So if you had two blocks of glassed lined up, one blue the other yellow, you would not see green looking through them, you would see whatever color the block is that you are looking through at the time. This is very easy on performance and gets the job done.

Now getting colored lighting via colored glass.. that is something that just isn't possible with how MC handles lighting, as it is done in a really ass backwards way.