Dev news : azalea blocks

Some more 1.17-related blocks today, with the latest Optifine previews I can now use more recent 1.17 builds with shaders without major issues.

The azalea flower blocks consist of the following items:

leaves as on trees or bushes
plant, which is a shrub-like block with a small trunk and foliage
side and top which complement the plant
the aforementioned plant also has a potted version
all those blocks have a flowered variant (leaves, plant, potted plant)

Let’s look at them separately:

leaves

As I don’t exactly know how they will appear in-game I laid those down in a bush-like pattern. I used lots of shaders, including OldPBR ones like Molly or PTGI (yes I know Molly also supports LabPBR but then it doesn’t use texture AO so I prefer using OldPBR with baked-in AO on Molly)

Plants

Plants here are basically azalea that are planted in soil/dirt. There is a flowered variant as well.

potted plants

Those are smaller variants of the plants that are used in flower pots. They are a bit trickier with regards to POM as they’re cropped much smaller and not close to the texture edges. Same thing here, regular version and flowered variant.