Minecraft Player Shows Off Photorealistic City Build
There are people reading this who likely grew up playing Minecraft, a game which is still going strong to this day, despite being released back in 2011, or even 2009 if you count the early alpha build. Being a game with near-infinite replay value, it has spent the last ten-plus years providing a digital canvas for the creative fan base. Much of this success is in spite of the blocky, simplistic, almost retro-style visuals of it. And while the aesthetic is perhaps one of the reasons the game sticks out, sometimes it's fun to imagine what it would look like if it were more realistic.
User Salamantic did just that, when they uploaded a screenshot for the Minecraft community on Reddit to feast their eyes on. The image shows some unknown city, with high-rise buildings a-plenty, a strip of road that runs along, and a river that flows nearby. At a cursory glance, the photo appears to be just that, a photograph of some bustling metropolis, but on closer inspection, it is in fact an image taken from the Mojang-made title instead.
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The result has left many people in the comments at a loss for words over how real it looks. The fact that there are randomly lit windows in the building seems to «sell it,» one person comments. It should be said at this point that, although it's a pretty stunning image, the original poster did say that it was a render done in Chunky, and not a snapshot taken in-game. Creating photorealistic assets in Minecraft using Chunky, or Blender, is a fairly common practice, and it really shows off the idea of what a game like this could look like with a more «naturalistic» look.
It is the simple and brightly-colored graphics that probably what make the
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