Modular Glass

[KushChapo]

i really want this in the game. I think this would be a great idea.

[Blackmage2015]

What is it

[KushChapo]

Like the signs but glass.

[ctrl-64]

gleam signs are not good enough?

[KushChapo]

Oh they are, but I want clean looking glass with no lines.

[ctrl-64]

some people just want everything

[Blackmage2015]

I want clear glass blocks and what you said.

[FireAngelDth]

Lol can’t seem to go long without this coming up again. Modular glass would be sharing a mesh limit with everything else which means 500 pieces in a chunk.

[Blackmage2015]

Essentially a way around it would be to make clear glass that you can chisel won’t be as flat as modular but a nice alternative that won’t mess with your mesh limit

[FireAngelDth]

Can’t do that either. They’ve already commented on this and why multiple times. @jesshyland sorry to tag you but I know you have the links to your comments about this

[Heureka]

I would be happy if the glass frame took the color from one of the ingredients.
And maybe some different frames to choice from.

[Blackmage2015]

But they fail at the concept of clear glass it is possible to make it you dnt need the boarder around the whole glass.
Just place the boarder on the front and back faces.
Where the glass touches another piece of glass the boarder disappears.

[Ark]

Here you go:

@jesshyland

The biggest and baddest reason of them all is that we simply do not support semi-transparent block textures. I asked about this back when I was making the glass block and the thing is, semi-transparency is crazy expensive, rendering-wise. I’m not a graphics programmer so I can’t talk in detail about why that is, but basically it adds a whole nother level of calculations required to every single block, because if just one blocktype is to be semi-transparent, all other blocks are affected by that. Anything that adds to the expense of rendering one block even a little bit becomes a BIG HUGE EXPENSE when you’re rendering a world made of thousands and millions of blocks.

I yelled and screamed about it(well, okay, I pouted a bit) but 1-bit alpha is all I get, so basically a pixel is either completely transparent or completely opaque. No in-betweens! This directly affects specularity and normal maps too, so I can’t have a ‘completely transparent’ block that’s still shiny like glass.

I tried a bunch of different ways to work around this including some old-school dithering effects, but nothing looked right - fine dithering looked too solid, larger patterns looked artificial and weird, ‘what if the glass is just opaque’ missed the point of glass blocks entirely, et cetera. I couldn’t find a good compromise! I’m still open to rethinking the frame design, but without the frame to tell you something is there, the glass block would just be completely invisible. And the frame needs to be relatively hefty so it doesn’t just get mipmapped out of existence at a distance.

FWIW, we do support semi-transparent materials on items, creatures and player characters. The glue, blood and healing items that we recently added to the game are in translucent glass bottles, although I need to spend some time working on that as it runs into some 3D sorting issues ingame. They currently don’t look much like they do in Maya, which is definitely a big issue for me. Let me assure you that I am very dedicated to getting the best-looking glass I can achieve with the tech I have

[FireAngelDth]

Again this has been commented on why. Pretty much every question or suggestion on this topic has been answered.

[Blackmage2015]

And what she wrote doesn’t deny that my suggestion would be a good alternative

[FireAngelDth]

That’s not all of her comments on the topic. Just one.

Edit: this is the one I’m talking about since you don’t seem to want to do a search.

Seamless Glass / Smart Stack Filtering / Skill Points / Guild Beacons

Some suggestions that occurred to me recently, in no particular order, that seemed worth posting: some use for skill points after all skill pages are full. One option would be to convert 'em into cubits. Another option, if converting to cubits seems like too great a benefit, would be to add full respecs / cleanse points that can be bought with the spare skill points to the cubit store. Or perhaps simply change the level coffers so that they stop giving skill points and give extra cubits / cle…

The whole post is something to read not just one comment same with the one she links and that has already been linked above by ark.