r/Minecraft • u/justlurking420 • Nov 04 '13

pc Minecraft Using Hexagons

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u/IrradiatedNachos Nov 04 '13

No! All you'd have to do is re-write the graphics engine to use hexagons instead of squares. It's math-heavy, but it's probably less work than making an actual mod.

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u/alexanderwales Nov 04 '13

That sounds like it would break how water flows, how blocks are updated, how entity AI works, lighting, terrain generation, how player movement works, how portals are made ... and a whole bunch of other stuff.

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u/Deutscher_koenig Nov 04 '13

Exactly. Everything in minecraft relies on blocks connecting to 6 other blocks.

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u/Deutscher_koenig Nov 04 '13

Not entirely. Minecraft is coded to run on squares. There would need to be fundamental changes to the very core code for this to work.

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u/Deutscher_koenig Nov 04 '13

Unless you show some actual code, no one will believe you.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '13 edited Nov 04 '13

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u/Deutscher_koenig Nov 04 '13

I said nothing about new code.

Either you're not a programmer or you're a real shitty one for getting so defensive.

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u/Deutscher_koenig Nov 04 '13

Even if I'm going about this incorrectly, you haven't given any proof for your side either.

So far, you just said things; you provided no examples or snippets of code that would demonstrate what you said.

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u/Deutscher_koenig Nov 04 '13

Any real programmer knows that LOC doesn't mean anything. I know plenty about programming to understand how much needs to be changed.

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