Minecraft "Bowl of Fire"

So I realised that I hadn't really made anything particularly exciting in Minecraft then, and I'd seen all of those lava suns, and thought, "Oh, ok, cool. WAIT."

It came to me then; I'd make a bowl of fire high above my base like a beacon. Of course it'd be made out of glass.

This is something I planned first in Wings3D. I made the outline of a circle with cubes until where I wanted the sphere to end, then put a plane that starts and ends at both end of the circle. Then I put a plane in and made a sphere, but cut out any cubes above that line. Eventually it looked something like this.



So then I made it in Minecraft. I forgot to save progress shots but it was pretty boring in progress. First, I made the stone pyramid structure. Then I made the glass bowl. Then I went down my mine a few times with 6 buckets and filled up the bowl.



I finished the structure just before Secret Friday Update 5, which added boats, so I went out to see my creation from a distance.



Sweet.

Minecraft 32p "Hi-Res" Items - Update 2

- Added boats.

Minecraft 32p "Hi-Res" Items - Update 1

- Updated to add snowballs.

Minecraft 32p "Hi-Res" Items

I made this. It's basically just the items remade with a greater resolution.



If you have trouble installing this, comment, because I can't be bothered explaining right now.

oops

I just slightly forgot about this blog. Think I might keep it up to track my Minecraft adventures, some game I recently got into. Not that anyone's been following this blog but online documentation is nice.

NEXT GEN - July 5

THIS WEEK ON NEXT GEN, WE RUIN COMMAND AND CONQUER: RED ALERT

Red Alert. Memories of playing those first few missions over and over, and going OK, then getting flogged in the 4th or 5th. Hey, I slowly made progress. At least even then I knew that Soviets were overpowered.

Anyway I didn't put much effort into this one because I only just remembered to actually make the bloody thing just now, plus I got a bit nauseous after I looked at last week's final shot.

So here's the original screenshot which I found on the internet, and edited out the "Destroy all villages etc" text so it wouldn't interfere with my... HDR lighting.



Being lazy again I only added a couple of effects, because let's face it, for a 199x game, there isn't much "NEXTGEN" to add to Red Alert. I was about to add a water effect like a sun reflection but decided against it.



I don't think my 360 will be able to run this, but that's probably because it RROD'd.

NEXT GEN - June 28

THIS WEEK ON NEXT GEN, WE RUIN SIMCITY 2000.

Simcity 2000 was one of my favourite games. Even though I usually ran into deficit (when I didn't use cheats which was 90% of the time) due to my... excellent management skills I would play it for ages. Then I reinstalled it recently and was like "holy shit this is easy".

Here's some of the first city I made since that reinstall... now available on the Unreal 3 engine.
Original Screenshot


Because I'm lazy, I only have 2 next gen conversions.

NEXT GEN

The first is some bloom, shadow accentuation, brown, lens flare, water, etc...



OH GOD IS THAT SOME 3D? oh no, it's just the perspective tool, along with some "clever" fog.



Will accept more ideas for NEXT GEN conversions in the comments box.