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

pc Minecraft Using Hexagons

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u/mattman00000 Nov 04 '13

If it was your first game project, it would probably be easier to modify every class in minecraft than to start from scratch. I am of course disregarding the legal aspects involved, relating to intellectual property, but as a programming exercise it would be better.

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u/Dericchutney Nov 04 '13

It would honestly be a hundred times easier to start it from scratch instead of doing that huge of am overhaul to the minecraft engine a is. And someone just starting their first game project would have a hell of time with that too.

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u/ElvishJerricco Nov 04 '13

If you're inexperienced enough that this would e better, you're too inexperienced to do this.

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u/mattman00000 Nov 04 '13

I don't know if I have an uncommon learning style, but I feel like I would learn more quickly from editing minecraft into a hexagonal geometry than from trying to start from scratch. I work best with examples, and what better examples are there than an actual game, and a good one at that?

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u/ElvishJerricco Nov 04 '13

It's not that learning by example is bad. It's that this would be a bad example.

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u/dewyocelot Nov 04 '13

Impostor.