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[Sacheverell]

It's time for another round of mini-golf!  Wait, no...it's Snapshot Day!  What lies in store for us this go-around?  Not a revised lighting engine, unfortunately; Dinnerbone has said that the lighting engine is still being worked on, but isn't quite ready for public consumption just yet.  Fear not, though!  While it might be taking a little bit of extra time to optimize the lighting, it is certainly better to take a little extra time and get it right, than rush something that might not work correctly.

In the meantime, let's see what bugfixes await!

Install Minecraft Snapshot 13w07a

with the Curse Client

...or download 13w07a direct from Mojang →
other files: minecraft_server.jar, Minecraft_Server.exe.

Bug Fixes:

• Slight optimizations to lighting
  
• Map item placed in item frame experiences Z-fighting
  
• Nametag of certain mobs too low / too high
  
• Team colors/prefixes/suffixes are not displayed with "@a, @p\, @r"

[DeanUK]

Glad to see the lighting is slowing getting fixed.
And on Valentines day too, aw Mojang you're too kind to us.

[x_clucky]

Lighting fixes on Valentines day!?!?! Dinnerbone must really love us!

[darklordmack]

La mayo.

[GrandChaos9000]

Actually, the world has generated in every bug of lighting as in annoying, it was earlier of alpha, beta and final to fixed.

But the one and only about the most repetitive boring of this part in few bugfixes and improvements in this snapshot.

Until, i'm going to wait in final release must getting blow up.

If the 1.6 will be coming yet to snapshot, just add more realistic and missing biomes.

[KGsauce]

One step closer to final release of 1.5!!!! YAY!

[Markwell99]

Take your time, get it right![img]http://static.minecraftforum.net//public/style_emoticons/default/mobpig.png[/img]

[Random_Guy_32]

Dinnerbone has been really busy with the lightning the last 2 weeks. I hope he can complete it before the end of this month.

[Primal_Wind]

The direct download from Mojang is 1.4.7, and not 13w07a.
Way to go Mojang.

[nitrocrafter]

This snapshot is shining with light. I like it.

[Primal_Wind]

[quote name='nitrocrafter' timestamp='1360872354' post='20920324']
What is he going to change on the lighting engine?
[/quote]

It will look better, have directional lighting (like light from the front of a furnace), work with stairs and slabs correctly, stop generation of dark unlit areas in worldgen, and all in all, just be a new lighting engine.

There will be a fallback for less powerful computers.

[Vagossssssssss]

You know I will really love to see 1.5 now but a snapshot it's ok [img]http://static.minecraftforum.net//public/style_emoticons/default/smile.png[/img]

[LynnNexus]

I'm curious about this point...

"[color=#333333][font=Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(242, 248, 251)]Map item placed in item frame experiences Z-fighting"[/background][/size][/font][/color]

[color=#333333][font=Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(242, 248, 251)]What does that mean?[/background][/size][/font][/color]

[Vagossssssssss]

[quote name='LynnNexus' timestamp='1360873604' post='20920700']
I'm curious about this point...

"[color=#333333][font=Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(242, 248, 251)]Map item placed in item frame experiences Z-fighting"[/background][/size][/font][/color]

[color=#333333][font=Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(242, 248, 251)]What does that mean?[/background][/size][/font][/color]
[/quote]

It's a bug when you place a map in an items frame

see more here : https://mojang.atlassian.net/browse/MC-2196

[forged_in_flames]

Yay! Ethos map wall will be fixed! (If you don't know what I'm talking about watch this [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYgCOGO0qtc"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYgCOGO0qtc[/url])
I'm gald to see the lighting bugs fixed now. REDO THE ENGINE PLEASE! Or else! [img]http://static.minecraftforum.net//public/style_emoticons/default/mobcreeper.png[/img]

[MamiyaOtaru]

[quote name='LynnNexus' timestamp='1360873604' post='20920700']
I'm curious about this point...

"[color=#333333][font=Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(242, 248, 251)]Map item placed in item frame experiences Z-fighting"[/background][/size][/font][/color]

[color=#333333][font=Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, sans-serif][size=3][background=rgb(242, 248, 251)]What does that mean?[/background][/size][/font][/color]
[/quote] simple terms follow.  in a 3d engine, you can think of z as depth.  z-fighting is when two things are so close together depth-wise, the engine has a hard time deciding which one is farther away and it's sort of random which one actually displays (or they both display mixed up with each other - see the screenshots in Vagoss*' link).  

Can be fixed by moving them farther apart, or doing something else to make it obvious to the engine which one needs to be displayed (glPolygonOffset works pretty well for saying "Hey!  draw this bit in front!")

[CyborgFish]

Quite a large amount of decrease in frame rate for me.

[MrLoco]

[quote name='Sacheverell' timestamp='1360869354' post='20919540'][list]
[*]Slight optimizations to lighting
[*]Map item placed in item frame experiences Z-fighting
[*]Nametag of certain mobs too low / too high
[*]Team colors/prefixes/suffixes are not displayed with "@a, @p\, @r"
[/list]
[/quote]

... that's it??  It probably took longer to type that post than it took them to fix those bugs.  4 tiny bug fixes in like 10 days, and "still working on the lighting engine" which has been "worked on" forever and I doubt will ever happen.

[Silver8888]

Slowly by slowly I see 1.5 coming

[Random_Guy_32]

[quote name='MrLoco' timestamp='1360877726' post='20921848']
... that's it??  It probably took longer to type that post than it took them to fix those bugs.  4 tiny bug fixes in like 10 days, and "still working on the lighting engine" which has been "worked on" forever and I doubt will ever happen.
[/quote]
It's called homestretch. Every feature for 1.5 is done, what remains are the necessary bugfixes. You can honestly be glad Dinnerbone even had time to fix 4 bugs while he was simultaniously working on the god-damn lightning engine. If it wasn't for a Thursday, there wouldn't be a snapshot at all.