Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
FIGURE 8.1
King's Landing from Game Of Thrones built in Minecraft with incredible
attention to detail. (Image courtesy of WesterosCraft)
Giant pixel art depicting almost anything at all: statues and sculpted creations that
are nothing but a glorious exploration of the maker's creative capabilities.
The list can go on and on, but I'll curtail it here. Suffice to say that anything is possible.
Note:
Get a Whole New Look with Resource Packs
In a standard installation, Minecraft has an organic, pixelated appear-
ance, but it's possible to completely change the look of every block. Re-
source packs (they used to be called texture packs) make this easy and
can change the way your creation looks from the default to rustic, real-
istic, modern, hi-tech, or even cartoon-like. Hundreds of resource packs
are available. More on this and some handy download links in
Chapter
look, click over to
http://www.minecrafttexturepacks.com
to get a feel
for them now.
Each Minecraft block is one cubic meter, so many replicas are built to a 1:1 scale—even
the entire center of historic Beijing from the ancient city walls torn down by Mao all the
way back toward the Forbidden City, with, it seems, almost every
hutong
in place.
