Minecraft 3D Rendering Demo

Published 03/23/2012

📝 This project is from 2012, I’ve chosen to keep it here as a reminder of my progress and growth.

I decided to write a Minecraft 3D rendering demo. I was inspired after I watched a video of Notch testing 3D models in a minecraft dev version.

Change Log

03/21/2012 - Rendered a 3D cube with test textures
03/21/2012 - Rendered a 3D cube with dynamic colored textures
03/22/2012 - Rendered a 3D redead from Legend of Zelda with colors (OBJ without texturing)
03/22/2012 - Rendered a 3D reread from Legend of Zelda with textures (OBJ with texturing)
03/22/2012 - Rewrote most of the 3d rendering implementation to have proper mob support
03/23/2012 - Tested the system with a large poly-count model (The last image pictured below)
03/23/2012 - Rewrote most of the 3d rendering implementation to have item support
03/23/2012 - Rewrote all the vanilla minecraft mob rendering system to make it dynamic (The model system is bound to one unique model per mob, so more models requires more mobs)

As you can see the system still needs a lot of work, texture drawing isn’t accurate. It’s still fun to play.