Glass without visible edges

[Pseudonym84]

Accidentally just posted this in the previous glass topic, but here are main reasons behind common questions about glass:

When asked about why doors have transparency and not windows:

@jesshyland

Doors are made of meshes rather than simply voxel blocks, so they don’t have the same restrictions as normal blocks. We use some fancy code magic to determine which parts of the door mesh to use where, depending on how you’ve placed the pieces.

Using meshes instead of voxels is one possible solution for glass as it sidesteps the alpha transparency issue(meshes can have semi-transparent textures as you may have seen on some items), but they’re not as flexible as voxel blocks and we don’t want people to be building whole structures out of meshes as that could lead to problems.

When asked why there isn’t a border around the entire glass panel, instead of each block:

@jesshyland

This would be a nice effect! It’s technically doable I think, but unfortunately as I already mentioned, any glass block that doesn’t have a frame would be completely invisible. So if you made a really big pane of glass like this, it would be confusing for people who can’t see the frame when they run into apparently solid air.