Minecraft gets animated textures

Pixelated indie RPG Minecraft now has the ability to use animated textures for its chunky world-blocks. Perhaps you're thinking that the modding community will be use this feature to create subtly-windswept vegetation and more convincing lava? No. It will be used to make you retch. [via RPS]

• [nixiebunny]

  So… all they had to do was to point to a starting line in the texture map that’s the game frame count % texture resolution? Sounds like a fairly simple program change. 

  • [Boundegar]

    No, I think all sorts of animations are supported.  This particular one induces vertigo.  More likely applications might be swaying tall grass and leaves on trees.  I hope.

    • [nixiebunny]

      I was hoping for animated GIFs to be stored in the texture pack, so you could have all sorts of fun. The version you describe is quite similar to the one I described, with a slightly different math function.

      • [Tyrone Olds]

        Not exactly gifs, but might as well be.  Though the game can take more colors than gif supports.  http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Texture_Packs#Texture_Animations_in_Minecraft_1.5

• [Mike Robinson]

  I had an acid trip like this once.

  • [Dlo Burns]

    Did you take the brown acid?

• [Fex]

  WHY AM I DRUNK, APPARENTLY??

• [Dlo Burns]

  “What, are the textures really gross looking or something? Whatever it is it can’t be that bad”

   -»watches video«-

  JESUS FACK

• [Mr. Son]

  Well, playing like that wouldn’t make me sick, but I would probably get super-disoriented. Geez.

  At least it wasn’t the flashing strobe colors of “the internet hates people with epilepsy”. That often gives me a headache.

• [Traska]

  Well, that was vaguely unsettling.

• [elix]

  It doesn’t always have to be nauseating… but depending on your opinion, my link isn’t it (SFW; He-Man What’s Going On video as a texture with the song dubbed over top).

• [ocker3]

  Didn’t really affect me much, but then I could happily read a book while travelling in the car, even though my family warned me I’d get sick and throw up. I’ve only gotten motion sickness twice in my life, once when I had the flu Really bad and once when I apparently threw up while asleep in the car…