Before the 19w45a/b snapshot, with a resource pack, you could make the shield transparent, but if you styled it with a banner pattern it wouldn't work. (Yes, I made the shield_base, shield_base_nopattern, and all of the patterns in /textures/entity/shield/* transparent) However, after this change, "Shield patterns are now using alpha channel instead of brightness" (https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-19w45a) even the normal shield won't be able to go transparent. I've attached a resource pack below, which says 1.15.X because that's the version that I thought the transparent patterned shield work in. With this, there are a few other things but mainly in 1.14 shields without patterns are transparent. In post-19w45a nothing is transparent.
I believe this texture change doesn't read the png transparency - it uses pre-defined transparency that are defined in the code and overrides the png file, which is very annoying.
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violine1101
Could you explain in more detail what the issue is? Screenshots would be very appreciated.
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Done, added screenshots - the same resource pack is active in both. Left is 19w45b, right is 1.14.4. You can tell the pack is active by the transparent hotbar
slicedlime
The shield being solid is part of the drawback of using a shield, and part of the balancing of the game.
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This will be awful for combat... I thought you guys learn your lesson form 1.9
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Disregard my last comment.
Apparently blocking 5% of the players screen (which doesn't even block out any important info, most of the time it's just blocking the ground below you) for "balancing" purposes is more important than allowing creators to make cool stuff.