Besides the asthetic aspect of it, it would stop things like large towers of water. Unless it was obviously contained or there was another source block. Obviously the water would still fall together for a time, and you could say, 100 blocks or so.
Pros:
Looks cool.
Stops water grief
Stops water poles.
No one else has done it, helps make Oort unique
I am sure there are others.
Cons:
No one else has done that. So that is a lot of work for you guys.
People would find a work around, but thats going to happen.
One could break down a water-block into sub-polygons - In a way lots of small pyramidal polygons. The further a waterstream falls downwards, the more minivoxels āundockā from another while spinning a little. and maybe get translucent and vanish while falling even more. This would be my personal idea, how Iād want it to be, but itās contrary to kind of photorealistic graphicstyle. With uncountable particles. As far as I know - this is the next gen graphic opulence like in Uncharted on PS4.
Well basicly the main funtion would be that you canāt make stupid endless water(block)falls. I thought that could make an mainly better visual aspect, also (because normally the Water would just go on if it hits the ground, as soon as it it rain it wonāt fill the ground with water anymore! Maybe as long as it it heavy rain it would still turn into waterblocks on the ground but not as normal rain anymore.
Additional:
You could also let spawn verly light clouds around the Waterfalls to let it look even more impressive ^^
Actually you would only have around a 15 block radius of light rain as max. per waterfall and I donāt belive there will be Waterfalls all the way. So you wou#dlnt even notice it as real rain. Youāll get that it comes from an Waterfall.
Well if youāve played Voxel games you should know that thats part of the system. But if Iām wrong tell me @james.
It wouldnt create an necessity, but it would be an possible feature to combine this with.
I can tell you how still to make those Water poles, just let your waterfall on steps Let it hit something every 20 blocks and it will āresetā so for the system its a new Waterfall that will fall down another 20 blocks until it turns into rain.
I think that should still be possible for people who might need those poles for an project or something.
That sounds like it would eat my RAM xD
Btw. I hope youāre okay with the eddit I did on your Title :3 ^^
Let it hit something every 20 blocks and it will āresetā so for the system its a new Waterfall that will fall down another 20 blocks until it turns into rain.