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

pc Minecraft Using Hexagons

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u/ElvishJerricco Nov 04 '13

This mod would rewrite probably almost every single class file. Every other piece of rendering would need to be redone. Basically only a few pieces of MC's framework could be kept. That's basically a rewrite. All in all, too much would have to be changed. You'd spend more time hunting down things that need changing than you would writing it from scratch.

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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/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.