[MC-67556] Leaves underwater have "falling water" sides (visual issue)

This is a problem in ALL versions of Minecraft (to my knowledge); including the latest snapshot.

When a leaf block is placed underwater - the top renders correctly - but the other sides will always show a "falling water" animation - meaning leaf blocks cannot be used underwater (they currently appear glitchy and therefore very unappealing).

With 1.8 there is an increased importance on underwater structures/building - and it would be a WONDERFUL improvement to be able to place underwater vegetation with normal leaf blocks (to replicate kelp or sea grass).

Stairs are understandably difficult in terms of how to be rendered underwater - but leaves are a full block - if the falling water animation (sides) was removed - leaf blocks could make underwater building much more interesting!

Note* While stairs and doors are understandably problematic - glass and leaves are (visually) full blocks and should not have this problem - a fix for both these blocks would add a great deal to the game.

Related issues

duplicates

MC-9553 Wrong rendering order of particles, hitboxes, clouds, transparent blocks, breaking animations and various other transparent textures

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migrated 2014-08-15T16:18:42Z

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migrated 2014-08-15T16:24:20Z

Not only leaves, but also doors, glass etc. Basically everything that is a transparent block. I think that maybe if you turn your graphics on fast and the leaves will render as opaque leaves, it will fix the problem, but I'm not really sure... I think so, because I saw in the past a few builds that had leaves next to water, and it looked OK, because I was on fast and I'm mostly on fast because my computer isn't great.

migrated 2014-08-15T16:41:05Z

Alon,

Thank you for pointing out the underwater placement issues - I have known about this issue for a long time - but I bring it up now because with all the 1.8 changes I assumed those changes would be made. Doors and stairs I can understand as problematic - but leaves and glass should be changed (however necessary) so that they don't have that problem - I remember making an underwater house several times and being so frustrated that the falling water animation ruined the view! I appreciate the advice to change computer to fast - but ultimately one shouldn't have to reduce graphics to fix a glitch 😉

migrated 2014-08-15T18:16:55Z

Dupe of MC-9553

migrated 2014-08-16T00:03:43Z

Aside from the title "Wrong rendering ... transparent blocks..." and one picture (of many unrelated) - I don't see how this is a duplicate...?

This problem has to this day never been fixed - I worry that calling this a duplicate and moving on is to simply forget the issue (the "existing-duplicate" is very general - and only casually relates to this problem)...

*Edit - as long as the problem is fixed before the release of 1.8, there is no issue - but please ensure this rendering glitch is included in the To-Do list.... 🙂