I think the real answer is maybe. With shader support they might be able to finally fix the transparency issues that were preventing them from implementing stained glass.
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Mojang has already stated stained glass wont be added because of the way it's rendered.
Except they just re-wrote their renderer, so I wouldn't write it off entirely.
Kinda depends on what exactly they do internally with how the game sees visible surfaces.
I'm hoping they make transparent blocks behave more like solid blocks in that they only render 'exposed' faces rather than just rendering the entire thing and tossing out 'obscured' faces using a depth buffer test. (At least I think that's how they are dong things currently based on observation.)
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Red glass wouldn't really make sense imo. At least not as something derived from red sand. Say I want to make a home in a mesa biome. I would then have to seek out regular sand in another biome just to make windows for my house? Sounds unnecessarily complicated. How about using red dye to stain window blocks to make red glass?.
Red glass wouldn't really make sense imo. At least not as something derived from red sand. Say I want to make a home in a mesa biome. I would then have to seek out regular sand in another biome just to make windows for my house? Sounds unnecessarily complicated. How about using red dye to stain window blocks to make red glass?.
I'm fairly sure they are fixing that issue. Rendering had a big overhaul last snapshot.
Well, once they fix portals and ice not rendering water, stained glass will be viable. Chances are is that they would have to rewrite most of the rendering engine just to get transparent blocks to work. If it was an easy fix, I'm sure it would have been done by now.
Have any mods gotten stained glass to work with water, efficiently?
It was added just for realism. White/yellow sand can't appear in a place that mostly consists of red and orange hardened clay.
1.7 is a biome update. Mojang have already done lots of great things for this update. If they added stained glass, they would have added it the first.
Lets just hope that stained glass and colored lighting will be added in future updates.
Mojang clearly wants stained glass - they've tried to add it before - and it's a very popular request. They will definitely add it if they can, but I don't think they'd put it in for 1.7, because there's a lot on the plate already, and because it's going to need a LOT of playtesting. It should have been in the first snapshots. If the new engine can support it, I expect it will be in 1.8
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I don't understand why it's called red sand, the real color is orange...
But whatever, I hope they come out with colored glass.
Since you live in the ocean, i doubt that you have ever visited any of the areas of the American SW that they apparently are attempting to model; even though the color of those rocks and sand (to me, also) clearly appear more 'orange'/'orange-red' than 'red', historically the iron-oxide bearing sandstone that creates this type of biome has been called 'red rock country' since discovered by English-speaking explorers. I have no idea what the native Americans called it.
Therefore, I expect since they have 'red' clay that is generated along that theme, 'red' sand is just a natural extension of the idea.
Kinda like how most natural 'redheads' have orange hair.
I don't understand why it's called red sand, the real color is orange...
This may be a late reply, but the reason it's called red sand is because it's the normal sand (which isn't even actually white to begin with; it's slightly yellow) with a red color added to that; therefore, it's orangish and not reddish.
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Not at the moment, no, we cannot.
...but that's just like, my opinion, man.
I'm fairly sure they are fixing that issue. Rendering had a big overhaul last snapshot.
Kinda depends on what exactly they do internally with how the game sees visible surfaces.
I'm hoping they make transparent blocks behave more like solid blocks in that they only render 'exposed' faces rather than just rendering the entire thing and tossing out 'obscured' faces using a depth buffer test. (At least I think that's how they are dong things currently based on observation.)
http://www.minecraft...d-mob-spawning/
Or bone meal to stain sand?
http://www.minecraft...d-mob-spawning/
Well, once they fix portals and ice not rendering water, stained glass will be viable. Chances are is that they would have to rewrite most of the rendering engine just to get transparent blocks to work. If it was an easy fix, I'm sure it would have been done by now.
Have any mods gotten stained glass to work with water, efficiently?
It generates in mesa biomes where sand generated in previous snapshots.
1.7 is a biome update. Mojang have already done lots of great things for this update. If they added stained glass, they would have added it the first.
Lets just hope that stained glass and colored lighting will be added in future updates.
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But whatever, I hope they come out with colored glass.
Many mods (with the exception of one) didn't add colored light, though, which is why Mojang wasn't ready to add it.
http://www.minecraft...d-mob-spawning/
Since you live in the ocean, i doubt that you have ever visited any of the areas of the American SW that they apparently are attempting to model; even though the color of those rocks and sand (to me, also) clearly appear more 'orange'/'orange-red' than 'red', historically the iron-oxide bearing sandstone that creates this type of biome has been called 'red rock country' since discovered by English-speaking explorers. I have no idea what the native Americans called it.
Therefore, I expect since they have 'red' clay that is generated along that theme, 'red' sand is just a natural extension of the idea.
Kinda like how most natural 'redheads' have orange hair.
Just give me motion.
This may be a late reply, but the reason it's called red sand is because it's the normal sand (which isn't even actually white to begin with; it's slightly yellow) with a red color added to that; therefore, it's orangish and not reddish.