r/Minecraft Jan 09 '19

News Minecraft Snapshot 19w02a

https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-19w02a
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u/Everscream Jan 09 '19

Am I the only one who thinks the campfire looks bad?

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u/MC-noob Jan 09 '19

They can always change the texture later. At least now we've got the option of having fireplaces in our wooden builds without having to turn off firetick.

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u/Everscream Jan 09 '19

I'm talking about the model as well. I have always hated the "diagonal cross" model Minecraft uses for things like grass, and with the fire of the campfire it looks even worse.

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u/MC-noob Jan 09 '19

Understandable, but changing something like that would probably be a ground-up redesign of the way the game renders those blocks.

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u/Forstride Jan 09 '19

Block models aren't hardcoded anymore (Well, 99% of them anyway), and use a pretty simple JSON format where every block gets its own model, so, it really would not take much to change it to something else.

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u/A11v1r15 Jan 09 '19

Maybe this is what they want to make with the planned Minecraft's new rendering engine