We Built Microsoft Paint in Minecraft (again)

[@mattbatwings]

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[@EliasWolfy]

Matt, do you have a server? Or do you just play with friends?

[@karolmarzeckol3886]

Okay.

[@TheOddCell]

woo!

[@Liven2D]

How do you made register to hold the cursor position 3:45, i have problems with that :\

[@Diamondsword85_RS]

what if you instead use the sound of villagers picked up by scull sensors to determine things like tool, size, and if you're drawing

[@CraftyMasterman]

illegal dust states was definitely an unexpected solution. wonder if other people will make more "layered" displays using a similar technique

[@hyarin9460]

Can you get it in survival? If not, what's the point?

[@ratgodgaming1202]

how does this comment not have more likes

[@dylancode]

@@ratgodgaming1202 because it's 9 minutes old...

[@edthewizard9315]

@@hyarin9460 No one is going to build this is survival, and all it does is make it so you have 4 more colors?

[@saynator]

@@hyarin9460 probably because this isn't made to be built in survival. Rather to showcase the wonders of redstone

[@Ri5olu]

it's not just how good these things are, I made a sort of pac man in ~ 5 months with too much planning, it's also the rate at which these are pumped out. ~ 2-3 weeks per. INCREDIBLE.

[@JulesB418]

when you talked about the bucket tool i was like "nah he didn't do a floodfill in minecraft, not possible"... well you did, GGs

[@olmachai]

I feel like a medieval peasant trying to understand basic germ theory when I watch your videos.

[@Mr.SavageMHT]

100% accurate

[@rubensf7780]

He’s finally got wings!

[@humanperson8418]

Next up - animation program! Add a timeline that you can save too and move along. Use your paint program to edit each part of that timeline. Showcase - Animation vs Minecraft in Minecraft!

[@phantomcrafter146]

Holy, that would be cool AF

[@bork6996]

sadly, the amount of space required to store an image in minecraft redstone is pretty large, considering one redstone dust is one bit(not byte, a byte is 8 bits)

[@youcubedu12]

Technically one redstone dust can be used as either one bit, or like here, 4 bits.

[@dianjonker]

​@@bork6996 The way this paint program was written, each Redstone dust actually is a byte (or more specifically, a word? It has 16 states) They are using Redstone signal strength as a hex value, not just the on/off state as binary :) This should make it smaller to store. Still complex, sure, but much better than individual bits

[@lythd]

@@dianjonker it would be a nibble not a byte. and it would not be a word, a word isnt a particular value its dependent on the cpu but this isnt a cpu. even still it would be absolutely huge to store, hex storage isnt that much more compact than regular storage even as a rom just because of the way the logic has to be to preserve the signal strengths. so their point still stands.

[@dudkipl2802]

i still remember when colour displays were thought to be impossible, and now we have this. i have to say its really impressive. next up redstone minecraft in 3d with colour

[@FriedMonkey362]

Its really gimmicky, in order for everyone to experience the same thing they HAVE to download a texture pack first, they have to download something in order to the have the same effect

[@Waluigiredstone]

but i think in a texture pack just make it lost the point of only redstone

[@dobi2447]

@@FriedMonkey362 He has a redstone lamp version already. This was the natural next step.

[@WoolyCow]

i mean mod punchtree has already made coloured doom in minecraft...and they just dropped a new ray tracing with redstone vid...so im gonna bet you arent far off :>

[@debesys6306]

​@@FriedMonkey362 a lot of servers these days have automatically downloading texture packs so it's not too annoying imo

[@bekzatjazz]

Another redstone build that entered the history of minecraft 😮

[@JohnJCB]

Matt bat has wings

[@susannerudolph8469]

tbh i like them they lookn AWSOME

[@AstronomyKid]

@@susannerudolph8469real

[@feierlord]

someone gave him a redbull

[@boscoyuen8970]

​@@feierlord lol

[@dronko-fire-blaster]

probably Customizable Player Models mod

[@nyxvoidcatmage]

can u stop being a genius and let us catch up

[@WhoIsJoeRoblox]

FR

[@CubeXC]

Yeah, he’s too smart, we must overtake his brain with 3817484817395717 brains

[@sciencengaming9049]

According to my calculations we will beat him on April 32nd, 2024.

[@Austin_Playz27]

@@sciencengaming9049 thats great last estimate was december 32nd

[@hyper6283]

​@@sciencengaming9049your calculation is incorrect according to my calculation we will catch up with him on May 45th 3033

[@danylone]

The first guy who makes colored minecraft in minecraft is gotta be the king with this technique

[@robowolfe5297]

One year from now, the title is gonna be: “I made real life in Minecraft!”

[@that_guy1211]

"i made ray tracing inside minecraft!"

[@Aurorajunior7321]

@@that_guy1211already been done lol

[@MusicLabMadScientist]

"I made Minecraft inside of Minecraft inside of Minecraft with just redstone! (Redception)"

[@sciencengaming9049]

"I simulated the heat death of the universe with just redstone!"

[@Aurorajunior7321]

@@sciencengaming9049 one piece of tnt:

[@Frogable]

creo's music is hands down the best music for a redstone showcase

[@pulitissimoyoutube]

regarding the click, you could have made it so that when you are crouched the strings above you do not activate...

[@mr_pigman1013]

too slow then

[@RadioactiveBluePlatypus]

If you did that you wouldn't be about to get off the trackpad without drawing a dot.

[@IceMetalPunk]

@@RadioactiveBluePlatypus Alternatively, jumping could activate tripwires above you as a click,and the whole pad could be built on scaffolding so you can crouch down out of it without triggering those wires. Obviously that would make it slower to get out of the pad to change tools, though.

[@viCuber]

@@mr_pigman1013 swift sneak?

[@pulitissimoyoutube]

@@RadioactiveBluePlatypus you could just invert the signal...

[@dvbanana]

Great choice of music

[@thabo256]

if you ever plan on doing a v3, a undo/redo feature would be so cool!

[@firebolt-osc]

A line feature is NECESSARY

[@TuxedoDogss]

undos, redos, and shapes like squares, circles, and lines. and maybe even more complex stuff like a goddamn select and move tool

[@thabo256]

@@TuxedoDogss select and copy/cut paste would make it almost actually usable

[@dikiy_0pezdal]

unfortunately almost all the shit you've listed is too complicated for minecraft redstone and requires insane amounts of memory

[@guestIdk-ni9hb]

Here's a few ideas of things to add: - A reset button (probably on the screen itself so that you don't hit it accidentally) that makes the entire canvas white - Use block displays so that you can click on the item/tool to use it, rather than clicking a note block - Use pistons on the trackpad so that when rhw player walks, they get sent back to the middle. This would both make the trackpad smaller, and make you not have to fly if you want to move your cursor far - This one probably isn't possible, but an undo button? You could probably store the inputs in a ram (or shift register?) and have a button to undo.

[@trioOFmischief]

Thanks for this, I’m gonna download it, draw my Minecraft skin’s face, show it to someone and then close Minecraft, open MS paint and make a masterpiece

[@ZealanTanner]

That illegal state bit is actually insane. That’s amazing

[@10-to-the-games]

Lets go!!! Now we can make powerpoint! (A lot of different save files as slides) One step closer to Windows in Minecraft!

[@tabularasa0606]

Please no.

[@S4ndedude]

I would love to see more explanation about the components, maybe you can make extra video's where you explain more or just show the components apart from the big machine

[@kaiperdaens7670]

Add a place to store drawings. And maybe even an import and export feature so you can hook up multipe together.

[@muenstercheese]

it's so fun recognizing concepts (flood fill) from my CS classes showing up in minecraft!

[@BoazDonk]

gotta love the creo songs

[@SpaceCatAtelier]

As a programmer, I am impressed that the fill tool worked first try

[@jasyak2]

When one builds a version two of their Microsoft Paint in Minecraft, a Mattbat gets their wings. (As evident from his new wings in the video)

[@trollchristianjb1233]

This bring back to many memories. I remember getting into redstone after reading the first Minecraft redstone book. Still have it to this day. They featured “FDB Disco” or something like that. He made a game “cakedefence” it was so amazing watching the KZbin video. Somehow I never downloaded it. I then tried making my own.

[@pandalonium]

I have an idea. Using relative position seems cool but maybe just using your normal pressure plate idea to move it left and right would be much simpler. You could then use some kind of entity or mob (like a chicken) to push the player back into the centre when you release the key. Still an incredible creation as always!

[@Chlebqowyyyyyyyy]

Fire, I wish it was possible to make in survival.

[@jankokuu]

I mean.. You can if you use data packs and grind alot resources.

[@exterminator9676]

@@jankokuu Illegal dust states though...

[@Chlebqowyyyyyyyy]

@@jankokuu You can't because of illegal redstone which is only possible to place with a debug stick or /setblock or mods.

[@FriedMonkey362]

​@@jankokuuyou also have to download a texture pack in order to experience anything at all

[@LineOfThy]

@@FriedMonkey362you seem to love pointing out the obvious

[@Ssa13-ib8yn]

Make this but make it so it’s on the floor, I mean so you can use this to make pixel art. That would be so cool!

[@Joabi_]

You should recreate a DAW (digital audio workstation) in Minecraft! This has been done before, but you had to move with the music. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could if you could be stationary when the music played? P.S. I already started working on this so if you wanna work on it together I’d be down. No problem if not though! P.S.S. Love your vids 😊

[@sebastiandelatorre4662]

Great video as always! I was so impressed with the fact that you were able to implement the bucket tool, I would love to see a more in-depth explanation on how you did it.

[@jonathansimonsson6905]

Great video! If it is possible it would be cool to add a second layer of tripwires right below the "trackpad" to detect clicks. So if you want to move the mouse you hover just over the second set of tripwires, and when you want to draw you hover right in between the two sets of tripwires so both gets detected at once.

[@Ifx-]

You don’t even need carpet mod anymore just use /tick rate

[@broyojo]

an interesting ui choice could be detecting when the player crouched. if they crouched, that could be equivalent to holding down mous left click. walking normally will just be moving the mous around.

[@Enderkruemel]

just use map displays, they dont require illegal dust states and also no resourcepack. it is more complicated but it also makes use of the maps so you can paint design elements,that anyone can see ,even with no resourcepack installed. i have made an working version and if anyone has questions of how i did this just ask me in his server in voice chat

[@FriedMonkey362]

You mean a map in an item frame? Then they would have to use command blocks because I don't know of a way to change the map using redstone

[@Enderkruemel]

@@FriedMonkey362 hold it in the hand to edit, to lock the Picture put it in an frame...

[@Minun61]

​@@Enderkruemel Can you elaborate, what you are suggesting does not seem like it could be done with redstone, and would have to have someone manning the build

[@Enderkruemel]

@@Minun61 just ask me in voice chat , its easyer to explain there.

[@LineOfThy]

@@Enderkruemelyou can’t move that bruh

[@mtk_clear6718]

His wings look awesome im assuming its essentials mod which is a great mod for free multiplayer and cosmetics

[@AlexGiesbrecht-b1f]

Oh my! I still cannot believe how amazing these Redstone builds are! I look straight up to you!

[@Daxis1]

As someone who has done a fair bit of logical redstone, this is way beyond anything I could ever imagine doing. A few things though, I don't know exactly how your machine works, so I don't know if this would be feasible or not, but wouldn't the bucket tool be similar to the zero spreading from your minesweeper? Also, I was wondering if it would be possible to use those illegal dust states to get extra colors for the screen. Still amazing job on this.

[@haph2087]

The bucket tool is similar, except that zero spreading is *always* for a zero value, while bucket spreads depending on an arbitrary value. This means that the color needs to be shared, and the comparison needs to be done on the fly, not precalculated.

[@ItzSurge]

I used your redstone logic series to build a functional word processor using a binary encoded hex keyboard and custom 17-segment display, and it took me four days. Before last week I barely knew how to make a t flip flop. thanks for all the knowledge you’re giving the community 🙏 looking forward to more crazy impressive stuff like this

[@dobi2447]

Crazy what you can achieve just by putting in the time 😤🔥

[@humanperson8418]

Paint v3: Point & Size Shapes - e.g. square using top right & width, circle using centre & radius 2 Point Shapes - e.g. line by inputting start & end, rectangle by inputting TR & BL Sprite Load - The option to save and load custom sprites. Loaded using square or rectangle tool. Second Color - MS paint uses second color for eraser tool & optional shape fill Text Input - Enter TR point, text, optional background colour using rectangle tool.

[@theworm7156]

-second layer of tripwires above so you can jump to click -gradient tool Paint v4 -animation -custom brush shapes -Color spectrum

[@icycloud6823]

undo and redo feature

[@the_m_original]

​@@icycloud6823 would probably require a shit ton of memory to keep all the previous states of the drawing, might also get really laggy cause trying to load previous drawings

[@icycloud6823]

@@the_m_original Doesn't need to have infinite memory. Could just remember 1-3 previous states, or more depending on how expensive it is to keep memory of previous states.

[@the_m_original]

@@icycloud6823 i wasnt saying infinite memory, i was just saying a lot of memory that is, if its possible to compress it a lot (signal strengths, compression algos, etc etc) but also, yeah, it can probably also be limited to a certain amount of save states, like you said

[@rgb6rgb6pro72]

Hey @mattbatwings, your work is once again amazing, I have an idea with this paint v2, you could make a printer that make a map art based of what you put in your paint, this would be amazing. Continue videos and we want more video with mrs batwing.

[@EthanLagden]

It would be super cool if you could save them to memory then load back a drawing you could use comparators to store the signal strength of each pixel.

[@ttrendy_editz_]

i love when you take your old video ideas and add colors and make them better

[@Sacrefiied]

Suggestions: for a paint V3 I'd be interested in seeing a colour picker and maybe a way to 'save' drawings. Maybe a way to increase canvas size

[@ottercarbonara3446]

That is amazing. If they ever do a V3, I feel like it would be better if it only drew when you were crouching or vice versa

[@samuelhervasgonzalez]

You could now do a collaboration with the guy who made minecraft in minecraft with redstone and try to make it in color

[@JacobSmith-fh3kb]

Now you need to make a general purpose computer with a color screen. It will have applications, like a calculator, paint v2, one of your games, and jazziireds email and programmable jukebox. It could also be programmed with python. Something like that would be awesome

[@nicolaecalin4217]

This color scheme thing is completely revolutionary for redstone computing

[@Flygon77]

I wished you used calibrated sculk sensors to detect when the player puts on armor, then it would send a signal to alternate between tools

[@KhaosNerd]

Perhaps, because you have been using colours recently, you could make snake, but you could customize the skin of the snake, like in the google version.

[@zix2421]

You’re so cool that you evolved to winds version like pokemon?

[@mrjson3039]

Yeez... I don't know where to start. track pad, cursor, floodfill, different tools, clicking and holding, erasing.... MAAAAAANNN!!!! I want a algorithms minecrafts series. And a track pad video too. This is getting out of hand pretty quickly and I'm here for it. Thanks Matt

[@조민혁20]

Now you need to add undo/redo. (Command block way is a much easier way to save screen states)

[@burts06]

Every time I watch one of these videos, I want to play Minecraft. The V2 version is so cool! And colorful!

[@haph2087]

I can't wait for 1.21 so that we can finally have good buttons for this sort of thing. Wind charges are the correct way to interact with buttons on giant redstone builds..

[@maxybg]

Wait wind charges could sometimes be the equivalent of water on a computer

[@haph2087]

@@maxybg Sure, if you build your computer out of components that can be moved by wind charges, they could have bad side effects. If you don't, but use inputs that can, then you can hit the inputs from really far away.

[@_DewGaming]

While all of the different tools, and especially the bucket tool, are really cool, the fact that you needed to use illegal states kind of diminishes the accomplishment in my eyes.

[@XAORESS]

This project is with no doubt a masterpiece but to be honest I prefer when you don't use signal strengths as colors / symbols simply because I think this kinda destroys the redstone golden rule : you have to do everything by yourself, including colors.

[@FriedMonkey362]

Yeah i REALLY dislike the fact that EVERYONE has to download a texture pack first in order to experience anything at all in this Imo the line of vanilla/not vanilla is that fact that you have to download something in order to experience the same thing

[@LineOfThy]

@@FriedMonkey362nah, data packs are technically vanilla so

[@LineOfThy]

That’s never been a rule lol

[@redstonewolfx]

Suggestion: make one place where the player can use all the settings in a more compact area. I.E. a lectern with colored names of color options as its pages, and the buttons for tools and sizes near it That might be too complicated or redundant, but it’s neat to me

[@MrRubikraft]

All this is simply brilliant! And you did a great job at explaining everything, I believe I understood everything!

[@jiahelin-d6p]

That is freaking crazy matt, love your vids

[@SatroCube]

Love the addition of creo's song 'flow' at the end

[@thatcatthatalwayseatsyourchees]

now we need tto add that new creaking eye tracking

[@EnderRadio]

Yea

[@axolotl482]

the only thing about illegal states is, it was neat to think about how you could make this all in survival and if you can get illegal states with commands, how far can commands go while still being redstone (I also could just not be very smart, and it still is something you can get without cheats) still amazing though, I couldn't even get close to V1 with commands

[@maxybg]

Well, you could remove four colors and use them as the cursor

[@SecndBestBan]

Awesome!

[@NieMamNicku]

all that's left to do is wait for the movie "I made Windows system in minecraft"

[@flowocode]

YOOOOO, and my favourite Creo song at the end!!!!!!!!!!!! This is crazy!!!!!!

[@benbilbro516]

Imagine writing a python program that takes in an image file, and converts it to a grid (same size as your canvas) and sets all the colors to the 16 values you support. Similar to your 3d renderer process. You could do color matching for images with over 16 colors, just map to nearest neighbor. Would be a fun project :)

[@BornaPosts]

Idea for v3, make the noteblocks have custom displays and increase player range via commands to allow players to select options from far away

[@raeplaysval]

redstone has allowed us to relive what it was like when computing was hard but really exciting

[@krajeq]

yo, i love this idea. could you, if you may happen to do v3, make the click button with pressure players under the player? that would be more realistic to clicking the touchpad

[@ZeroPlayerGame]

Will you be publishing something discussing Bucket Tool internals? I'm really curious how you did this, since the usual algorithms require either having a queue or having recursion.

[@AaronNaveedGill]

Bro!! You are on another LEVEL😵😵 🔥🔥

[@CubeXC]

This video with music and everything just remembered me of dani vids. It was really good

[@sohamtilekar5126]

Bro ill sugest you to use the calabrated skullk sencor below the trup wire, which will make sure pass the input of the trip wire pad if you snick or walk not with other thing, making it usefull without creative, and add item changing also based using calibred skull sencor like if you wear armour then brussh will triger, if do eat then something else will triger.

[@Ramp4ge28]

Obiously, as always, a good creo song at the end❤

[@_mara_]

You know what would be so cool? A way to save your image into a map, so you can hang it in a wall or something

[@Danieltron]

now I can see that if mojang adds a redstone component that changes its color depending on signal strength it would be a great update for the game

[@NieMamNicku]

yes tak sì sí sim

[@5h0pp]

since you are already using custom textures, you could use the villager trade sounds to make the tools be items in your hotbar

[@FriedMonkey362]

Someone has watched simply sarc

[@5h0pp]

@@FriedMonkey362 idk from what i know that i just kinda remembered it

[@andrewcook8300]

Quick question: how does the brush icon change depending on the tool? I know you ran out of states for the redstone (or at least I thought you did), so unless there are more illegal states that weren't shown, I'm confused as to how you were able to add in the additional textures.

[@MCAwesomeBoii]

In the older version they included a line-drawer, circle-drawer and I believe also an "insert sprite" v3 maybe?

[@thefur4et895]

how do u get illegal dust states if u can't get it without commands than why not just use command blocks (if u can get them without commands I would love to know how)

[@Inksfr]

Just with the music you can know that the level is insane

[@BLOCKADE_CAT]

i love that you make videos like this, but its been a while since ive seen a build video where you tell us literally everything lol, i liked that when i came to your channel x3, and the length of the video also just doesnt tell us how much effort it was

[@elishuster5943]

One other addition that I feel like would be nice would be a reset tool that just turns everything back to white

[@quinnencrawford9707]

it is possible to make a font with letters, numbers, and some punctuation with room for an empty and about 2 more slots per quadrant that can be used for other things. i know because i made one

[@theworm7156]

Gradient tool next

[@HvrYT07]

Im so excited

[@DaydreamStudios_Official]

It's funny to think about if this project used Command Blocks instead, but it's neat to think that this could technically be made in survival :)

[@SutaLagiGabut]

Is that a shardscapes refrence😱

[@dobi2447]

The amount of people getting annoyed about the texture packs is CRAZY. I mean I get where they are coming from, but its his build, he can make it however he wants. Not to mention it is still vanilla, and also, he already made a version where you do not need a texture pack. And how can you downplay all of the work he did simply because he used a texture pack? Just think how you would feel if you spent hours making ms paint in Minecraft only for someone to go "u used texture pack thats cheating"

[@redcrafted_]

well using a textur pack is not rly vanilla anymore if your build requiers it to work as intended

[@dobi2447]

@@redcrafted_ By definition it is vanilla, but you can do some illegal stuff with texture packs, like x ray, so I get what you mean. But my other points still stand.

[@Jsemp_Art]

insane

[@GayAnnabeth]

for paint v3 you should implement saving and loading images to disc (or _discs_ lol)

[@notanenglishperson9865]

Your most recent builds are the most creative ones

[@jaysonbunnell8097]

awesome!! deffo showing some friends this.

[@BaldiReycaster]

Oh wow!!!!!

[@eshleyyy]

Creo music over shaders in showcases goes unfathomably hard.

[@oskarristolang]

absolutely inspirational.

[@Pixquik]

Just saying but imagne if he made a game with sounds🔊