Low Block Change Request: All bark wood fences to have only 1 horizontal beam

[SseriousBusiness]

Request: All bark wood fences to have only 1 horizontal beam

Request Type: Change

Try to describe all current uses of the block you request to be changed. Do you foresee any issues/ problems that could result from changing the block?
Hi, so it would be nice if the bark wood fences would only have 1 horizontal beam, then it looks better trying to represent branches and can also be seen as a broken branch, rn having 2 just looks kinda weird, idk if its a hard change but it doesn't seem to be.

Right now it looks like this:



I'd suggest removing the bottom one so it can look more like a broken branch, and if its used in any other structure (which imo, I think it's only used in stand alone poles nothing else structure wise) it would still look ok.


Types of evidence to support your request: Historical

Historical Evidence
There are trees in real life, and trees don't usually have 2 branches uniting in 1 vertical branch, where as there are many examples of 90º broken branches or branches with branches springing from them.
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Thank you for your time

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[Emoticone11]

Interesting request. I think it should be easy enough to change the block model, like we did for wall blocks. However, I worry about cases where people use the bark wood fences for things other than trees. Maybe it won't be an issue - in cases where people mix oak bark fences with wood plank fences, for instance, it could simply be interpreted as a "rudimentary" fence where some of the horizontal beams have fallen off, or something like that. Would have to test it.

 

[Emoticone11]

Moved to in-progress, though no guarantees at this point that it'll be possible to implement this. I'll have to experiment with it still.

 

[Thamus_Knoward]

that it'll be possible to implement this

Should be fairly straightforward to do on the blockmodel side of things. I can make a prototype if that helps?

 

[Emoticone11]

That would be helpful! The horizontal beam should be on the same level as one of the two beams in the current fence blocks (either the top or the bottom, not sure which would look better). That should minimize the amount of uses it would break.

 

[Nicodemus]

May I propose making the new model a bit Conquest Regorged 1.15 esque and making it look like a branch?

 

[SseriousBusiness]

May I propose making the new model a bit Conquest Regorged 1.15 esque and making it look like a branch?

I don't think that's the right way to go, our texture pack is very grounded on it looking generally Minecraft-y and blocks like fences, walls normal blocks stairs and slabs should stay generally as their vanilla model look, + bark fences are still used in poles and other structures that need thin wood beams that are not plank based but rather just a wood shaft.

 

[AerioOndos]

Seri is completely right, the vanilla style and uses other that as purely nature blocks means we can't do Conquests new branch look

 

[Thamus_Knoward]

How's this?

It's an overlay pack for now but Emoticone11 could probably hardcode it to be part of WB permanently (or take my changes and have this effect be governed on the RP side of things).

Up to you Emoticone11

 

[Thamus_Knoward]

BTW, if we ever decide that we want realistic trees I can easily make fence blocks that look more like branches (similarily to how Conquest does it). The sentiment so far has been against that but maybe if you mull it over a little it might have an appeal. There's really not that much in the way of making it happen.

 

[Nicodemus]

BTW, if we ever decide that we want realistic trees I can easily make fence blocks that look more like branches (similarily to how Conquest does it). The sentiment so far has been against that but maybe if you mull it over a little it might have an appeal. There's really not that much in the way of making it happen.

I think Westeroscraft could implement some of the more realistic way of making trees, but not maybe as far as Conquest goes. Maybe some 45 degree branches so that angles could be represented a bit better, but I don't think we would need to go too detailed.

 

[Emoticone11]

Made the beam slightly higher:

Not really sure how I feel about this though:

We might need to just fix those cases wherever we come across them in-game if we implement this.

 

[Azulejo]

Wouldn't it be more realistic to make the beam at the lowest point? At least if we're going to use them just for trees.

 

[Emoticone11]

Wouldn't it be more realistic to make the beam at the lowest point? At least if we're going to use them just for trees.

It would be more realistic in terms of representing a branch, but it would break any other uses of the bark fences (e.g. as fencing).