Painting

[candlesayshi 6]

First of all, I realize that this is a longshot of a suggestion, because it doesn't add too much in functionality (other than just being really cool, especially in SMP), and I can only imagine the difficulty involved in programming it into the game.

Anyway, I was looking at drawings and reading about aurochs, to imagine how they might be in the game, when I came across this:

...and I thought. That would be awesome in the game.

Like, crafting a paintbrush (perhaps from sticks and wool/fur), and mixing paint by combining dye and milk/water/egg/whatever that has a finite amount to use.

Then, you could color the paintbrush with the paint, and hold the RMB on a block to draw lines of paint that follow the cursor along the surface of whatever blocks you're painting across. Perhaps also use water to clean a brush and scrub paint from walls.

Might be cool?

[transcengopher 349]

Might be. But almost all of us ain't artists, so what I really expect to be finding is lovely collection of pricks and butts.

[Hyena Grin 92]

Aside from the technical improbability of this (any kind of vector or raster dynamic texture overlay system would undoubtedly require major engine overhauls), I can say that this would be used (in SMP at least) primarily for graffiti. I am not offended by obscenities and the like, but I don't know if I want to see obscenities, racial and sexual slurs, and untold numbers of phalluses littering the settlements. ;P

[Sda215 8]

Seems more like an aesthetic suggestion to me, quite frankly Mister Candlesayshi. I agree with Mister Transcengopher's post, but... well err.... I have no clue what to speak now, .

[candlesayshi 6]

what I really expect to be finding is lovely collection of pricks and butts.

I don't know if I want to see obscenities, racial and sexual slurs, and untold numbers of phalluses littering the settlements. ;P

I think that'd have more to do with the people you're playing with than the ability itself.

[GreenLeaf 198]

Aside from the technical improbability of this (any kind of vector or raster dynamic texture overlay system would undoubtedly require major engine overhauls), I can say that this would be used (in SMP at least) primarily for graffiti. I am not offended by obscenities and the like, but I don't know if I want to see obscenities, racial and sexual slurs, and untold numbers of phalluses littering the settlements. ;P

Actually, when archeologists did an excavation of the ancient roman city of pompeii they found just that!

http://www.pompeiana.org/resources/ancient/graffiti%20from%20pompeii.htm

here's a list of various things the romans wrote on other peoples walls.

so yeah. you know that, "x and y was here" thing? old concept. like... reeeeeeeeaally old concept.

[transcengopher 349]

I think that'd have more to do with the people you're playing with than the ability itself.

That's why I said it might be cool.

[Hyena Grin 92]

I think that'd have more to do with the people you're playing with than the ability itself.

I am not sure what that has to do with anything. A lot of people play with strangers. So the kind of people you're playing with is frequently unknown.

Actually, when archeologists did an excavation of the ancient roman city of pompeii they found just that!

http://www.pompeiana...m%20pompeii.htm

here's a list of various things the romans wrote on other peoples walls.

so yeah. you know that, "x and y was here" thing? old concept. like... reeeeeeeeaally old concept.

That's true. However, just because you can find pictures of penises on bathroom stalls today doesn't mean I necessarily want a mechanic in a game where people can draw them all over the place. This is neither ancient Rome nor a bathroom stall, and we are not ancient Romans.

Just seems like a lot of work to allow people to grief eachother with crude pictures.

[GreenLeaf 198]

I am not sure what that has to do with anything. A lot of people play with strangers. So the kind of people you're playing with is frequently unknown.

That's true. However, just because you can find pictures of penises on bathroom stalls today doesn't mean I necessarily want a mechanic in a game where people can draw them all over the place. This is neither ancient Rome nor a bathroom stall, and we are not ancient Romans.

Just seems like a lot of work to allow people to grief eachother with crude pictures.

eh, people have been able to build cobblestone cocks since the earliest days of minecraft and yet, as long as you're on a good sophisticated server you're not gonna see any of those.

About the actual topic though. it seems hard as fucking hell to implement.

could it maybe not just be like a different kind of "painting" crafted with stone and markings to create a stone carving that can be placed on walls?

speaking of which. i have actually never seen a mod that adds more paintings. is that because it's a tricky thing/down right impossible or has no one ever felt like doing it?

[Just_Another_Guy_:) 1,066]

Let me shamelessly link my/ECC's cartography thread here, 'cause it goes on painting too

Maybe it could be done so, when you right click the wall with your brush or whatever you use to paint, it will create a painting/sign like object which you can edit, and in the editor window you can draw whatever you want to be painted in the wall. When done, you close the edit window and there it is your drawing. This block can be placed in walls, can not be picked up, and by right clicking with the same item, you can edit it (even though you won't be able to erase it's contents unless you have some paint of the same colour of the wall).

On the "cocks drawn all over the place!" thing, it could be made so this paintings can be broken by hand in seconds. Not that believable, really, but it solves the problem quite easily... that, and the mod team of whatever server you are in being alert for graffity.

[Buczkowski 36]

I honestly don't see the possibility os 'naughty images' as being much of an issue. After all, a reasonably flat space and a shovel leave a similar oprtunity to draw such things if one is so inclined.

[Kimbblesrath 503]

On the "dicks drawn all over the place", I don;t get what is so wrong about it. That is like saying signs shouldn't have been implemented because they could be used to write obscene messages all over the place.

[Yeznik 1]

It has been done, and quite well, in Hippoplatimus's mod. It is now open-source.

http://www.minecraft...ow-open-source/

[Just_Another_Guy_:) 1,066]

It has been done, and quite well, in Hippoplatimus's mod. It is now open-source.

http://www.minecraft...ow-open-source/

Since it's opensource, the painting itself could be used quite easily. Let's just remove the infinite paintbrushs, though and have something that makes a little more sense... The main feature is ok, but not the tools for it.

[Yeznik 1]

Here is the open source version for 1.0:

https://github.com/Hippoplatimus/Paint-Mod

[LordOfWolves 514]

It's outdated. Bad thing because I wanted it to mark my paths and make roads. Only a dream

[Ditto8353 202]

I wish it didn't completely cover the texture it was painted on

[LordOfWolves 514]

I wish it didn't completely cover the texture it was painted on

Did you want a 2nd layer to draw?

[Ditto8353 202]

I mean, if you paint on stone bricks I want it to still look like stone bricks, not just a solid sheet of paint.

[LordOfWolves 514]

I mean, if you paint on stone bricks I want it to still look like stone bricks, not just a solid sheet of paint.

Ah then you still want a stone, but that looks like the real...and then you want that in the painted zone the difference of all the original colors remains. Ok, but it's difficult to do. This mod, also made some time ago, then old, is enough for me.

[Ditto8353 202]

Ah then you still want a stone, but that looks like the real...and then you want that in the painted zone the difference of all the original colors remains. Ok, but it's difficult to do. This mod, also made some time ago, then old, is enough for me.

Whew. Man you Italian folk are hard to understand. Lol.

Yes, that is what I want.

[Pakislav 120]

The only way I see this could be done ("easy") would be to use the mechanics of paintings that are already in the game, and just eddit them to look as if they are made of stone.

[Biodigious 211]

speaking of which. i have actually never seen a mod that adds more paintings. is that because it's a tricky thing/down right impossible or has no one ever felt like doing it?

More Paintings! and More paintings pls!. And then the one that's already been mentioned that paints on blocks. Just because you have a life, doesn't mean that mods don't exist.

Eight, equals sign, equals sign, equals sign, capital d to what Kimbble said.

[Kimbblesrath 503]

More Paintings! and More paintings pls!. And then the one that's already been mentioned that paints on blocks. Just because you have a life, doesn't mean that mods don't exist.

8===D to what Kimbble said.

Why thank you Bio! *sarcasm*

[LordOfWolves 514]

Why thank you Bio! *sarcasm*

Don't worry, kimb, it's a shovel with a weird handle