Having trouble with your Parthenon? Does your university lack a certain Dorian aspect? Is your White House inexplicably missing something? The solution to these problems, my fellow Minecraftians, is columns.
How they work:
As you can see in the first image, a column placed by itself has a cap on the top, but not on the bottom. For a stack of any other number of column blocks, the texture is determined as follows:
->If there is a column block directly above the block, but not a column block directly below the block, use the "bottom column" texture.
->If there is a column block directly below the block, bot not a column block directly above the block, use the "top column" texture.
->If there is a column block above and below the block, use the "middle column" texture.
->If there is no column above or below the block, use the "top column" texture.
This allows a single block to use three different textures and to create nice-looking columns no matter how you place them. (It's similar to the way redstone changes its shape when placed next to other redstone.)
The blocks have a column texture on each vertical face and a smooth stone texture on the top and bottom (similar to the texture of a stone slab). They're kind of like wood blocks in this way. In fact, I just reskinned wood blocks as column blocks to generate those screenshots.
I was going to come in here raging about how you should just stack some goddamn blocks, but I checked out your screen shots and it's actually a brilliant idea. Bravo, +1, internets, and bump.
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You could, for example, replace the Sandstone texture with this. Or one of the dyed wools you don't care for. I mean if you wanted the visual effect without needing a proper recipe for it.
EDIT: Oh I see how you've got the different textures for how they are placed. Very cool... you'd need to replace 3 textures for that. Yeah.
You could, for example, replace the Sandstone texture or one of the dyed wool textures you don't care for with the Column texture. I mean, if you wanted the visual effect without needing a proper recipe for it.
**** yeah, just turned my yellow wool into a column. Feels good, man.
I was going to come in here raging about how you should just stack some goddamn blocks, but I checked out your screen shots and it's actually a brilliant idea. Bravo, +1, internets, and bump.
I was too xD. I like the idea now tho and i also think you should make stone fences (just not called that) that could be used as columns in case you want them thinner..
I kind of like the idea but I would like to see a different recipe for it. I'm still rather hoping that at some point vertical half-blocks are implemented.
It's an interesting concept for a block, indeed; I'd just be afraid it was a bit too "niche," really. I can't imagine that there are too many places where the block would look nice; the only place they'd look good is in structures made of stone/cobblestone. You probably couldn't make it look good in a wooden structure, nor could you with a brick structure or a sandstone structure. I suppose that's what texture packs are for, though.
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Love it as is, yet here's a suggestion just to be 'logical.' Since you have slabs animated on top and bottom of the pillars it would make 'sense' within the aspect of minecraft to have the recipe be:
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or even
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Also it just makes it that much more 'unique' as a recipe is all :biggrin.gif:
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Here's the recipe:
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http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/6844/columnrecipe.png
Click here to see a much better picture of the above recipe.
http://img249.imageshack.us/i/columnsdemo1.png/
Click here for an example of different column heights. Columns may be placed next to other columns to create groovy walls!
http://img18.imageshack.us/i/columnsdemo2.png/
Click here to see an example of columns used in a facade.
How they work:
As you can see in the first image, a column placed by itself has a cap on the top, but not on the bottom. For a stack of any other number of column blocks, the texture is determined as follows:
->If there is a column block directly above the block, but not a column block directly below the block, use the "bottom column" texture.
->If there is a column block directly below the block, bot not a column block directly above the block, use the "top column" texture.
->If there is a column block above and below the block, use the "middle column" texture.
->If there is no column above or below the block, use the "top column" texture.
This allows a single block to use three different textures and to create nice-looking columns no matter how you place them. (It's similar to the way redstone changes its shape when placed next to other redstone.)
The blocks have a column texture on each vertical face and a smooth stone texture on the top and bottom (similar to the texture of a stone slab). They're kind of like wood blocks in this way. In fact, I just reskinned wood blocks as column blocks to generate those screenshots.
I'm submitting this suggestion on the getsatisfaction site.
http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/new_block_idea_columns
If you like this idea, go there and click the "I like this idea" button. Then we can have columns in Minecraft yay!
[edit] Here's the texture for the column blocks, if you want to reskin them into your Minecraft as well.
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/6984/columntextures.png
EDIT: Oh I see how you've got the different textures for how they are placed. Very cool... you'd need to replace 3 textures for that. Yeah.
In any case, I like this idea.
**** yeah, just turned my yellow wool into a column. Feels good, man.
I was too xD. I like the idea now tho and i also think you should make stone fences (just not called that) that could be used as columns in case you want them thinner..
Perhaps as stable mighty support column they could be immovable by pistons, after pistons are introduced.
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It's an interesting concept for a block, indeed; I'd just be afraid it was a bit too "niche," really. I can't imagine that there are too many places where the block would look nice; the only place they'd look good is in structures made of stone/cobblestone. You probably couldn't make it look good in a wooden structure, nor could you with a brick structure or a sandstone structure. I suppose that's what texture packs are for, though.
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or even
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Also it just makes it that much more 'unique' as a recipe is all :biggrin.gif:
+1 from me either way!
The pen is mightier than the sword, or in this case, the text is mightier than the troll.