While using fast graphics, tree leaves render as fancy in the distance.
I expected that in fast graphics, trees would render non-opaque.
What happened was that near leave rendered as non-opaque as they should, but leaves in the distance rendered as opaque see through blocks as should be seen only in fancy graphics.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Options
2. Click Video Settings
3. Set Graphics to Fast
4. Look at trees in the distance.
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MC-60013
Graphics bug, on graphics fast some leaves load as on fancy graphics
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MC-60148
When far away from trees with fast graphics trees look like fancy graphics
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MC-60180
Chunk loading bug and leaves rendering bug
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MC-60416
In Fast Graphics, trees up close look fine. But in the distance, they look fancy.
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MC-62157
Fast Graphics render textures in the distance as it would on Fancy Graphics
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MC-62560
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MC-62574
Textures of the leaves and dropped items are like in Fancy when you are in Fast
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MC-62676
When the graphics are on Fast in options the trees graphics are fancy and fast
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MC-62785
graphics fast error in the trees
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MC-62842
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Leaves get transparent on 'fast' mode
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MC-70130
Fast Graphics look fancy
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items dissapearing and leaves glitching
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Not fixed in 14w25b. Trees nearby show Fast graphics texture, trees far away show Fancy texture. On a unlikely, but possibly related item, the clouds were turned on when I thought I'd left them turned off. When I turned them off, they stayed off, but the leaves have stayed messed up. When I changed to Fancy, all the leaves were Fancy. When I changed back to Fast, the nearby leaves rendered Fast, and the distant ones Fancy. At a distance of about 50 meters away they change from Fancy to Fast as I approach.
Odd, it doesn't happen to me at all. Maybe it only occurs with some types of graphics cards.
Can confirm is still an issue in 14w27b.
The game renders the leaf blocks themselves as their partial transparent versions but does not render the blocks behind the leaves as if on some level it knows it's not supposed to be transparent.
The game changes them to be non-transparent when I enter within 12 blocks horizontally of the chunk they are in and changes them to transparent when I am 16 blocks away or more. This means that if I enter within 12 blocks of a chunk containing leaf blocks, they will become opaque and will stay opaque until I leave 16 blocks away from that chunk, and they will stay transparent until I enter 12 blocks away from that chunk (in other words, there's a 4 block buffer where the leaf blocks are whatever they were last).
Here's a beautiful example - the bottom of the tree is close enough to be fast graphics, the top of the tree is fancy graphics.
And now, at about the same distance, they're blue. I'm not using any mods or texture packs, If I get close they go back to their normal color, and when I move away, they go blue again. At first I thought there were some blue flowers behind the tree, but nothing of the sort. The leaves turn blue.
@ Jaqi Hegland
That's not the leaves turning blue. That's the leaves being transparent looking at them but the game not rendering any blocks behind it because it knows it's supposed to be opaque. Thus, you get the blue world background behind it.
I see. Thanks. I hope they fix it soon, as my wussy little computer can't render at a playable speed with a lot of leaves to do - I had to quit the world when I was in a jungle. I really need fast graphics to be low intensity. It would actually be better if the leaves were fancy up close and fast at a distance. That would look better, and be fewer hi-res objects to render.
still not fixed in 27b. And it is NOT the same problem as 25 where they were "x-ray" . THis are full on fancy rendered trees.
A different issue listed a workaround of turning off OpenGL, and since I did that, my trees render correctly. rendering has become much faster and I've had less trouble with many things.
(from MC-56897 Chucks Don't Render)
Disabling Advanced OpenGL solves this issue (Options -> Video Settings -> Advanced OpenGL -> Off)
If you don't have that option in your video settings, please check your .minecraft/options.txt for the entry
advancedOpengl:false
If it's true, change it to false (Quit Minecraft, edit this file, restart Minecraft)
Possibly only a fix for some people. My advancedOpenGL has always been off (just checked in the option.txt). Still in snapshot 14w28b I am getting the leaves rendering in fancy while in fast graphics.
Cannot reproduce in 14w29a
Still occurs in snapshot 14w29b.
Turning off Advanced OpenGL does seem to help fix it in my case, but leaves in my inventory still appear "fancy" (transparent) when they should be "fast" (opaque).
Also, I couldn't help but notice how the description says "opaque" instead of "transparent".
Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version 1.8.1 or later? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.
I have tested it, and I can happily say this is no longer a concern for Minecraft 1.8.1, running on a 64-bit Java on Ubuntu 14.04
🙂
Thanks.
Fixed in 14w25b