We have a portal, and Notch loves the game Portal, so my not make the Nether portal similar to the ones in Portal?
1. Replace the 6 portal blocks with an image of the Nether when the Nether is generated, it would be updated every time you go back to the overworld.
2. Take out the 3 or so seconds of time that your screen fades out, and have a low fog settings worth of Nether chunks always spawned, so it would be a smooth transition.
Both of these would make overworld to Nether minecarts work.
On your first suggestion: By image do you mean a static image? Or something more along the lines that if you move to the left, you may see further to the right as well as seeing flowing lava and moving mobs(like a window?)
The first way would seem a bit awkward, personally...
and the latter would (probably) take up a lot of resources.
Perhaps fancy/fast graphics could toggle between the two?
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On the second suggestion: It sounds like it would be a good idea, but I don't know how well it would work for lower-end computers. Might cause people to lag out (and crash) every time they see a portal if they have a "barely playing it" computer....
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If mobs can move freely through it, then Ghasts should be unable to break obsidian and iron doors (not sure if they can or not, now that I say that)
On your first suggestion: By image do you mean a static image? Or something more along the lines that if you move to the left, you may see further to the right as well as seeing flowing lava and moving mobs(like a window?)
The first way would seem a bit awkward, personally...
and the latter would (probably) take up a lot of resources.
Perhaps fancy/fast graphics could toggle between the two?
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On the second suggestion: It sounds like it would be a good idea, but I don't know how well it would work for lower-end computers. Might cause people to lag out (and crash) every time they see a portal if they have a "barely playing it" computer....
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If mobs can move freely through it, then Ghasts should be unable to break obsidian and iron doors (not sure if they can or not, now that I say that)
The first one involves upon the Nether being generated it saves an image of the Nether from the portals POV. It would only update when you re-generated the Nether or the Overworld. For balances sake all mobs would lose aggro upon going through the portal.
1. Replace the 6 portal blocks with an image of the Nether when the Nether is generated, it would be updated every time you go back to the overworld.
2. Take out the 3 or so seconds of time that your screen fades out, and have a low fog settings worth of Nether chunks always spawned, so it would be a smooth transition.
Both of these would make overworld to Nether minecarts work.
Anybody like it?
Yes, although mobs would lose all aggro upon you going through (i'm guessing you don't like the idea of a horde of zombie pigmen going in your base)?
The first way would seem a bit awkward, personally...
and the latter would (probably) take up a lot of resources.
Perhaps fancy/fast graphics could toggle between the two?
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On the second suggestion: It sounds like it would be a good idea, but I don't know how well it would work for lower-end computers. Might cause people to lag out (and crash) every time they see a portal if they have a "barely playing it" computer....
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If mobs can move freely through it, then Ghasts should be unable to break obsidian and iron doors (not sure if they can or not, now that I say that)
The first one involves upon the Nether being generated it saves an image of the Nether from the portals POV. It would only update when you re-generated the Nether or the Overworld. For balances sake all mobs would lose aggro upon going through the portal.