Video settings bug: Missing option to turn off alt blocks.

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Confirmed. Maybe intended ?

Super secret settings and broadcast settings are both also removed. I hope the alt blocks setting is fixed though. I hate having alt blocks on.

Intended: https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/3f6657/15w31a_alternative_blocks_option_removed/ctmq1fq

I hope this isn't a "feature" as this is the reason i lag like hell when playing. Compered to when previously turning off alternate blocks.

The option to toggle alternate blocks on or off has no impact on the amount of work required to create a resource pack. You are free to define as few or as many alternates for any block – you do not have to reproduce the alternates provided by the default resources.

Have you actually compared your framerate with alternate blocks enabled and disabled in 1.8, as opposed to comparing framerate with them off in 1.8 and with them on in the snapshots? A look through the blockstate files shows that there are only 9 blocks with variants (bedrock, dirt, grass, netherrack, red sand, sand, stone, TNT, and lily pads), and they all only rotate or flip the models – they don't define any new models or textures. They really shouldn't cause much, if any, performance hit. If you're experiencing a performance problem in the snapshots, it's likely due to other changes, not the removal of the alternate blocks option.

Yeah! But I think it would be better when it is turned off by default and you may turn in on in resousepcks.
As I said the rotations are sometimes really ugly.

The performace drops are not only in the snapshot, when I play 1.8 without alt bolcks on laggs, when it is on the game is unplayable

why was this removed? I develop a resource pack and now the sand textures do not align as wanted.

@unknown because you can change the "setting" of alternate blocks in the block state/model files

Because no instructions were relayed, I am here.
-If one wishes to remove the self-alternating texture on a block (bedrock, for example), simply place the file in YOURESOURCEPACK \assets\minecraft\blockstates. Our file name is bedrock.json (extract minecraft version jars for filenames).
-Copy the bedrock .json file from the default version, and paste it within the specified file path. Open it and replace everything with

{
    "variants": {
        "normal": { "model": "bedrock" }
    }
}

-Save and reload you resource pack.

-Bedrock will no longer self-alternate.