I have found the echo chamber I have been looking for. Aliasists. My people.

2:06 Are you talking about me??!?!?!??!?

Great perspective! I really enjoy how worried you were that your lair was _too big_ of all things. And the anti-aliasing for the Pond People--oh my god, I loved so hard!

Fun video and idea 😊

she has such a pretty voice<3

manual anti alias in minecraft is crazy

This is an incredible video, I have been building in minecraft on and off for the last like 6 years, and no one, I mean NO ONE, HAS EVER SHOWN THIS TO ME

the way you explain things so softly makes me so happy🥰

this video is so uncanny it almost makes me uncomfortable, that is NOT how vanilla ambient occlusion looks.

Wow! Never thought of this. Definitely gonna use this in my builds!

ive done this with cross stitch designs, and thought it might be able to be used in mc building but couldnt really implement it! this is so cool!!!

this is dope, found it from a reddit post on detailcraft, super informative

Really interesting, and a good technique. Just a small technical point, using stairs or slabs is not anti-aliasing. Since you are essentially increasing the sample rate, or resolution instead

I really like the shading! This pops much better than the anti-aliased.

This is auper cool! I can't wait to try to incorporate this into some kf my builds. I love pulling techniques from other mediums to try to improve

The bookshelves and the looms are such a smart choice! I never would have thought of that.

I personally find these techniques ugly. Minecraft's beauty comes from work with the style of Minecraft which is blocky. These attempts to anti aliases make Minecraft builds look like you are just trying to copy real life instead of using the style Minecraft has been designed around.

I live your videos so much, great commentary about the topics and very informative 💖

Neat!

1:35 from my VERY LIMITED experience in 3D modelling, I can confidently say *this* is what Normal Maps are for. This is what you call a "light map". They allow you to take any object and "bake" lighting into them, using ambient occlusion. You can even give low-resolution meshes a high-resolution look, or create texture on a flat surface. The mod "Phosphor" aims to fix the inefficiencies of Minecraft's lighting engine, you should check it out. 4:15 I have an explanation for this too! So there are "cold" lights and "warm" lights, just as there are "cold" and "warm" shadows. The direct light you see from the sea lantern is a warm light, and acts like an incandescent lightbulb. The shadows of this light will be "cold", just like the light from outside, which is a "bounced" or "reflected" light. You see this reflected light even more at 5:30, where the reflected light illuminates the shadow. I love to use this effect in my artwork and my builds, making them warmer or colder depending on where the light is coming from and what color it is. I don't have an example on hand, I do believe Marco Bucci explains this in detail. 7:00 yes, most if not every light block is animated, there are even non-light blocks that are animated. Prismarine being the most commonly known example. 15:00 I think you did beautifully on the rendering there! Not a lot of people think about de-saturating their colors as they move towards shadow, but that is indeed what is happening. Less light is hitting the object, thus less color is reflected. I love the transition back to color as you bring the mossy cobblestone in - as more color will *also* make a shadow darker.

I really like the way you did the shading on the dome, the gradient looks great! The only thing I'd mention is that the highlight spot looks kind of odd, since it's untinted where the rest gets 'warmer' as it goes. Usually light brightens and tints the highlight, the middle is most close to the base color, and the opposite color of the light tints the shadow. For instance, in daylight things tend to be tinted slightly yellow, and shadows are blue/purple tinted. It all depends on the color of the light source, so looking at the dome the light is white, meaning it has no tint, and the shadow is green as if cast from a red light. I know that it probably doesn't matter much to most people, and I really don't know how I'd execute my idea correctly, but I thought some of my color theory knowledge might be helpful. Either way, I love these videos! I really aught to get back into minecraft building.

i am very pro-aliasing, to the point i have my laptop configured to alias text (we making it out the mid 90s with this one) the crispy cronch is pleasing to my neurons :3

Amazing video omg ^^ I love the fact people keep improving building/decorative stuff all around minecraft, keep up the good work!

Is that a counsel edition super-flat?! 🥹

Appreciate the demonstration! This is a concept I have been implementing into my builds recently, and I have definitely drawn inspiration from this. One of my favorite builders, BDubs, had built something that showcases this really well, and I've been down the rabbit hole myself now haha kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5bclJieZ56YgNk

Try to use fullblocks instead of anti ambient occlusion in the shadow, should make it darker

4:02 i belive most people get to know what it is because alot of games give examples on what the setting Does, and eventually as you game alot on pc you test the settings and you see the difference yourself, however everyone that start gaming don't know what it does =P until they learn.

We got anti-aliasing in minecraft builds before GTA 6 💀

youre literally revolutionising Minecraft building by verbalising these techniques

2:45 -- OOOOOOH. OOOOOH IT MAKES SENSE NOW. Oh my god

Mojang must fix this

I love how the museum has become its own character! Great and educational conclusion to the trilogy.

I think you did a great job of simplistically explaining what a ''light map baking'' is, even if in a Minecraft sense it's just a glorified way to call a highlight and/or a shadow. Also the techniques used on the dome of the Museum is very nice, but the rest of the build feels a little bit flat to me, especially how there's no breakup between the copper roof and the rest of the structure, plus the vertical uniformness of the main body despite the differing textures. It's nonetheless a great build, though. Also I really want to believe that the ''Mega dome of Doom'' is an Iskall reference.

Big aliasing hater here, good stuff!

I love your world! Especially your house : ] Very cute design with lots of attention to detail. I also think the start of the game is fun, the late game gets kinda boring sometimes. But building up a long term world can be super rewarding. When I get bored I just leave my gear at home and start from scratch somewhere far away in the same world.

Yipee I love baked goods

It would be cool if you made a video about forced perspective. It's something I use that I don't see a lot of people talk about

BdoubleO mentioned anti-aliasing in his most recent hermitcraft video. I have a feeling he might be a fan of your work as well!

I’ve felt for years that Minecraft is an artistic medium and videos like this just prove what knowledgeable and creative people can do with it.

Thanks for doing the light and shade on this - it looks great, even with the restrictions of having to find the best stairs and slabs. I think all techniques together look best!

Hey, great educational building, I hope you'd made it before i finished my latest maps with baked in lighting, i did it with a resourcepack i made tho (i have an old trailer in my channel if you are curious)

i think the final gradient turned out awesome :D

I love how all of these include demonstrations on that same museum build. Makes it feel like it’s all part of some fundamental lesson plan and really easy to follow. Just leagues above nearly all other minecraft content !!!

3:51 the first light in this setup has it's light map updated every 2 game ticks, any light after, has it's light map calculation delayed by 2 ticks, the game's lighting breaks when it has to calculate multiple light maps in roughly half a second, each 10 tick span Minecraft's code is old and kinda unfixable, it's also incredibly inefficient

1 thing I find very helpful 4 builds is taking a screenshot(or a pic w/ my phone) in b&w, so I can see the values more clearly. This feels especially useful for this type of lighting w/ blocks. If you look at the dome in b&w you can see that the more oxidized color is a really similar value. In general I tend to focus on values more than colors, but I’m also not great w/ colors so it’s kinda a crutch too. Rlly cool demonstration, the anti-ambient-occlusion seems super useful !!

the trilogy finale

Woah, ANOTHER good technique?! And from you again?! Kudos!!!

Ooooh. That’s why the glow squids suck.

Might be a good idea to vary the thumbnails a bit more. Othewise, nice video :D

Loving the rebrand cool!! Also love these little videos with building techniques, i saw an awesome meteroite build a while back and the light map was incredible!!