The dirt texture in the background of menus, such as the world select or options menu, appears blurred rather than having the crisp pixel textures of past versions. While it's possible this is intended it seems much more likely this is a side affect of the new texture system.
Attatched are two screenshots, one from 13w18c and one from 1.5.2. Focus on the dirt textured background.
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Remember, that is a community created list of observed changes in the snapshot, not a changelog from the developers themselves. Although its possible this is intended, the number of other texture bugs going round at the moment, as well as it looking a little out of place, suggest to me that this is indeed a bug.
Edit: The changelog on mojang.com also says the new texture system "may blow up". Mojang are expecting bugs, I would be quite surprised if this was intended 😛.
I soooo hope this is a bug!
If not,
(MOJANG LOOK HERE PLEASE)
I would like them to blur the texture itself, rather than blur it at runtime, so texturepack developers, like myself, can use their own pixelated texture if they prefer it. I know I certainly do.
(OK MOJANG JUST DO THAT AND WE WILL ALL BE HAPPY)
Erik Broes
Wasn't intentional, so fixed.
Also @Conor McS, stop being so emo o.O
Why was it being blurred? Just curious.
There are different kinds of interpolation (how it decides what to put in new pixels when scaling up a texture) when a texture is rescaled. Normally, Minecraft uses "nearest neighbor" interpolation, which keeps a pixelated appearance when enlarging an image. My guess is that a smoother form of interpolation was used by accident while someone was testing changes to the GUI, and this made it into a snapshot.
That makes sense, thanks!
That was a feature not a bug _
1. Open minecraft.jar or your favorite texture pack.
2. Open /gui/background.png in Photoshop. (use GIMP if you don't have Photoshop)
3. Image>Image Size... and set it to 128x128. (Image>Scale Image... for GIMP)
4. Save. Your background should be blurry now.
Erik Broes
And that is intended.
Looks like this is intended:
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Version_history/Development_versions#13w18a