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]

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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.
- http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ Dlo Burns
  
  Did you take the brown acid?
Fex

WHY AM I DRUNK, APPARENTLY??
http://daruiburns.tumblr.com/ 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…