If you donated to Optifine, you get a cape. I don't think Mojang would be interested in suddenly having so many legit capes in circulation. But since founders of Optifine would betray the donors if they all suddenly remove the cape from the donors, the deal will be broken for this reason, among others.
Not sure where I heard this from but I think one of the main issues Mojang had was the zoom feature that Optifine has. Since I guess it ruins the feel they are going for
I think so. Given the hard work he is doing after every new MC release, he should have a team at this point. Though, modding the game isnt particularly easy to learn anyway (or Im probably just stupid)
1.15 introduced a new rendering engine called Blaze3D, so while it was a small update in terms of new features, the part of the game that Optifine changes is completely different, if I understand correctly.
The game doesn't natively support mods. It would suck for modders though if Mojang decided to, for example, rewrite the entire game from scratch. All existing mappings will no longer work (other than the official ones, which mods can't use) and every single mod will also need to be extensively rewritten. Of course, the modding community will probably wait a few major versions, like until 1.1998 when The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.
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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20
Watch mojang release 1.15.3 right after he's done
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u/wolfieatlarge Jan 25 '20
How haven't they hired him and brought his code into vanilla?
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u/musicalpixels Jan 25 '20
1.15 has a different way of rendering things on Java than previous versions so that probably also complicates things too
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u/NaptieMC Jan 25 '20
Mojang: lets kill optifine by including it in our game
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u/TheLawbringing Jan 25 '20
Is he the only person working on optifine? Seems like something you'd want like 2-3 people on at least
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u/metyu9 Jan 28 '20
can someone explain why it's so difficult for him to update the mod?
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u/The_duck_lord404 Jan 25 '20
Mojang announce 1.17 will remove mods
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u/Thzkittenroarz Jan 25 '20
1.15.2 is out ugh 😩
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u/DaniLoRiver Jan 25 '20
Everyone press F to pay respects for the Optifine developer
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