Custom rendered machine parts

[Josharias]

I want to render animations of dials, widgets, and inner workings of a machine so that machines can have interesting visual effects.

Ideas:

• Render extra stuff on the outside of a block so that an animated part of a block would not spam chunk changes.
• Render things inside the block that move/change when a machine is processing. One could then expose a window into the machine to see what it is doing.

[MarcinSc]

Rendering objects separately from chunks (which is what you'd need) is processing intensive. Maybe make this extra rendering configurable for people with slower machines?

[Josharias]

Agreed. Having this configurable for each client would be good. Could maybe even auto disable if frame rates are too low... But that is a different story.