[1.7.10] Animated .PNG texture and mcmeta question

[Frag]

Hi guys,

 

as some of you know, you can put animated .png file (twice the height) in your minecraft block resource folder and put beside it a file with the same name, but with the .mcmeta extension. File would contains something like this ... (2 frames in this example)

 

{

  "animation": {

    "frametime": 7,

    "frames": [0, 1, 2, 1]

  }

}

 

So we have an animated PNG here ...perfect ... but any of you guys found a trick so not all the blocks will be animated at the same time? I guess that the frametime in the mcmeta represent the number of rendering pass before the next slide kicks in. But since all block are rendered one after the next ...we end up having all of them animated at the same time. Any trick to have the blocks not all in synch? So it would look more natural?

[LexManos]

Not possible.

The animation simply updates the texture on your GPU.

The same texture is used for all blocks.

Update it once, it updates everything.

 

[Frag]

I tried putting as much block as I can and it does not seem to interfere with the CPU at all. I guess that drawing the first texture or the second requires the same time.

 

But I have a very powerful machine ... so am I right in my affirmation?

[Draco18s]

Processing power is irrelevant when all blocks that are identical use the same texture across all copies.  You can put as much block as you want, it is literally irrelevant.

 

If you want a block to have a different look, you need to be more clever than simply placing "more" of them.