Eniko FoxNov 2
i love that in block game i'm agonizing about giving a stick a few more triangles when meanwhile minecraft is over here like "we're going to render dropped items using a 16x16 grid of tiny cubes :)"
Show threadEniko FoxNov 2

i dunno if this has changed but last i checked every item slot in minecraft's GUI was also rendering one of these 3D items except that they're rotated so they look like 2D images and as far as i know there's no caching going on

meanwhile block game just caches 2d images to use as an icon for every item in the game at startup because uhh, hello?? why wouldn't you do that???

Show threadgkrnours
@eniko less work? Faster start-up time?
Nov 2 at 10:59amWeb
Show threadEniko FoxNov 2

@gkrnours i feel like a slightly slower start up time to greatly speed up the game's rendering is a fair trade lol

also they could do it on-demand if they didn't want the startup time to be increased

Show threadNexaLilly 🏳️‍⚧️Nov 2

@eniko @gkrnours and Minecraft doesn't have a brilliant start up time anyway, with the official launcher also being much slower to start the game than any third party one I've tried.

Like, at least a minute slower on some computers.

Show threadEniko FoxNov 2
@NexaLilly @gkrnours plus the extra wait from the launcher!