Minecraft's 'Vibrant Visuals' Upgrade the Start of a New 'Graphical Journey'
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I'm surprised they never followed up on it, it was kinda cool. I really liked the reflective blocks.
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but there are plans to bring Vibrant Visuals to Minecraft: Java Edition in the future
Well if it comes together with the official modding API, I have nothing to worry about.
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I feel like all this visual upgrading kinda missed the point of Minecraft. It’s like colorizing black and white movies.
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How old will Minecraft be when they update the graphics to make everything shaped more realistically instead of just cubes?
I have a feeling the developers of the most purchased game in the world arent going to completely change the graphics that made it successful
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I have a feeling the developers of the most purchased game in the world arent going to completely change the graphics that made it successful
Do you think I was being serious?
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I think it's such a good implementation but it does make it a bit harder to play when you're in dark places
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Remember the big graphic update pack years back they promised when the Series X console was due?
Is this its replacement or finished product, since it never came ?
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How old will Minecraft be when they update the graphics to make everything shaped more realistically instead of just cubes?
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Minecraft has a long and storied history of cribbing features from modders and integrating them into the official base game. This includes hoppers, light senors, pistons, slime blocks, several of the types of trees, armor stands, displaying maps in frames, quite a few mobs, several of the current biome types, and probably a whole bunch of other stuff I can't remember offhand.
So yeah, stealing the idea (even if not the outright code) from shader mods would be completely on brand, and not at all unexpected. It's up to the player base to decide how they feel about this, but honestly it seems nothing short of kidnapping babies and setting them on fire would get any significant portion of people to turn away from Microsoft's stewardship of the game, given how hard they've tried to screw it up post-acquisition and yet it continues to print them money.
Mojang's "stealing" started from at least the pistons in 2011, 3 years before the acquisition. Credit was given to the original mod author under "Additional programming", and they did reuse the actual code from the mod
I don't think it's fair to call that stealing, for multiple reason:
- copyright of game mechanics should never be supported, if we serioussly consider this stealing then a lot of innovation will be completely hampered, and videogames will be subject to abuses worse than what exists in other creative industries. Copyright on game concepts would be akin to copyright on camera angles, special effects, etc...
- mods are only available on PC. Taking ideas from the community and incorporating them into the base game makes the content available for everyone, even vanilla PC players
- Mojang's has been very decent with OG mod authors, often being assisted by said authors to incorporate their content into the game, see how they worked with the author of Mo' Creatures, a mod for animals, to add the horse into the game
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They only implemented those in bedrock edition, available in the MS store... I'd rather they add it into Java edition so us Linux gamers can use them, and not tie them exclusively with NVidia
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but there are plans to bring Vibrant Visuals to Minecraft: Java Edition in the future
Well if it comes together with the official modding API, I have nothing to worry about.
I'm guessing they are planning everything. From the official minecraft article :
Now we’re actively working on Vibrant Visuals for Minecraft: Java Edition and our goal is to bring it to the game in a way that serves not only our players, but also our modders and resource pack creators.
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-vibrant-visuals
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To be honest the official minecraft article contains more information and is in my opinion better written.
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-vibrant-visuals
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