Glass Overhaul

[WitnessOne]

I would love to see completely clear glass that doesn’t have lines in between. I would also like to see different colors or types of glass.

[willcrutchley]

Please search the forums before making more threads about glass

Frameless glass

Please oh please could you pretty please with a golden cherry on top give us some frameless glass blocks with the next update? If I was wealthy I’d pay you anything. There’s so many builds id like to do that remain unbuilt because the current glass simply doesn’t look right with the borders on it. At the very the least would you inform us as to its planned release in your timeline.

Better Glass

As it stands, I’m not a great fan of the current visual representation, and relative high costs of glass, so I thought about ways that it could be improved… Currently, glass windows are the only thing that we can build using glass… it’s instantly turned from sand and compact silt into a big glass block with a garish (#SorryNotSorry) frame. I propose that an couple of interim steps are added here… First, you create a block of glass with no purpose other than to be a ‘block of glass’. No pre-ma…

Do something about glass, pretty please:)

I don’t know, maybe there are plans already in place to change things, but I will suggest anyway. As a relatively new player (I started a year ago but only came back to the game recently and a lot of things are new to me), I reserve right to be ignorant and unaware that these points 2 and 3 below are already in game Please change a few things about glass: Using 20 blocks of soil for one block of ice is too much in my opinion, its just a killer really. Don’t know if others will agree b…

Frameless is bad, because then the glass is just like air.
The engine doesn’t support partial transparency for blocks, so different colours aren’t possible either.
In terms of connected textures, idk.

[Oggieogham]

Water and lava appear to be transparent. Or are they just very foggy? They have more of a surface texture (which looks nice) on the test server, but I didn’t try swimming so I didn’t notice if the transparency has changed.

[Havok40k]

Water and lava aren’t a “block” though, so they have different rendering techniques for them. And no, it’s not possible to just make a solid, non-flowing water that looks like glass (ice?) It does not work that way either.

[Dzchan94]

It’s due to them not being blocks but, assets, or whatever the proper word was.

They end up chewing more resources to render. Doors merge for example, due to them being assets and not blocks.

The thought about making glass an asset has been brought up. But that would consume so much rendering power, and would probably be set to very restrictive parameters.

[Havok40k]

Entities I think is the term. Basically any non-cubic material from doors to shelves and work benches is an entity, and consumes considerably more resources to render. This is a problem with a block like glass that can often be used thousands of times in a small village or single large build.

[Dzchan94]

Yes, that was the word.

Take for instance the use of crucibles, they consume so many resources compared to blocks. And while devs love their usage as decor, they ask that we don’t build with them. As asked to dundedragon I think, one time.

[Havok40k]

I’m going to go ahead and close this one, as there are plenty of other recent conversation about this topic.