Gradients this video is all about gradients and yes the title is a little bit like one trick to improve your minecraft builds instantly click now to see how no this is about gradients and what is a gradient well it’s basically this a line of blocks that takes you From one color as smoothly as possible to another so this one is from black to white and it’s got lots of different shades of gray in between this is a great gradient in minecraft because we have lots of shades available for us to use so the idea in this video is to give You an idea of how to use one of these to improve your builds now to quickly demonstrate this i’ve got a few examples to show you so i whipped up this build here it looks pretty nice but i intentionally used just stone as the wall and this is totally okay it’s a Very subjective thing whether this improves or doesn’t improve all i want to say is that gradients can change the way that your builds look in minecraft so this is our base house now over to the right we have a gradient from a dark gray to a slightly lighter gray but as You can see texture plays a big role in this the busier the texture the more off-putting it can be however i think this version of the house does look better than the plain version and another thing to note is when you’re using gradients it looks better the further back you go Now i’ve got a few more examples i’ve got one that goes from light gray to white and i think this one really looks quite nice and i’ve got one that goes from very dark black all the way to sort of a dark gray all of these examples demonstrate Just how much using a gradient as your walls in your building can change the way your house looks okay so now that you understand the concept that we’re going to be doing let’s talk about how you actually go about doing it and some advice on how to use them so i’ve Provided you with this big long line of blocks and this is going to be our gradient now as you can see over there i didn’t include a house that went all the way from this to that because mainly when you use a gradient you don’t just Have one line of blocks no no no if you want a gradient it really needs to be at least a couple of blocks tall and then the idea would be that you mix it up as you go along like so so there’s no hard line in between them it goes Steadily from one to the other now the process that i use is that i lay out a gradient like this in front of the build kind of like i did here where you can see all the colors and you can use this as your reference guide so You can see the darker color has gone at the bottom and then as it gets progressively lighter we move up the building now you can do this any way you like but i prefer to have a darker color at the bottom and the lighter at the top so That when you look at the building your eyes are naturally drawn upwards it can make your builds look a little bit taller depending on how big your build is will determine how many of these blocks you can realistically use my house over there is reasonably tall But it’s not massive so i would use about six blocks from the gradient but you can use as many as three so i wanted to demonstrate why it’s important to make sure you use the correct amount because it really affects the way that your build looks so what i’ve got here Is two stone pillars on this one i’m going to use every single color on the gradient on this one i’m only going to use three and what we should see is a very drastic effect on this pillar and a more subtle one on this both are unique In their own ways and it’s designed to give you an idea of what might be the most appropriate for your build so let’s do a quick time lapse of what these two will look like so the left pillar will have one of every single block in our Gradient and as you can see it’s a little bit more tedious and inventory management whereas the right hand side took next to no time at all and a lot less blocks something to bear in mind our two completed towers end up having a very different effect now one of the Things that i want to point out to you and i mentioned earlier is that gradients look better the further away you are and there’s no better way to demonstrate this than with these two towers as the further i get away from them the less pronounced the transition Becomes and in fact on the left hand side you can see that there’s four distinct areas of color instead of 18 or whatever it is and on the right you can barely tell that there’s anything at all highlighting that this one is far more subtle than many Different kinds of blocks for example my mansion on season seven of hermitcraft uses this effect and these houses here use more of a detailed effect so what i thought we’d do is now that you’ve seen what we can do with gradients we would go through one together I’ve highlighted a gradient that i think would look really nice with this particular house made of stone and i recorded this in 1.17 or at least a snapshot of it at the time of recording because you get a really nice block available called the moss block and this Transition i feel will make it look like there’s a lot of natural things growing up the building so let’s go over the process of actually implementing a gradient into a build like this assuming that you have a house that has one block so the first thing of course is to lay Out your gradient like so in front of your building from dark to light and i like to start from the bottom so what i’ve done is gone and added in these moss blocks just down here now one thing that i didn’t mention earlier as to not Overload you with lot tons and tons of information but when you do a gradient you don’t always have to do equal parts of each color for example on this one i feel like it will look better if all of the green parts are occupying the very Bottom of it so that it looks like it’s only growing up very slowly so the way that i make this naturally progress into other colors is the bottom layer is all 100 moss then you just implement just one or two on the second layer and then Very few on the third layer three layers is a really good range for spreading the block over the build and we’ll do something very similar with the green concrete powder so again because this is meant to spread over three we probably want to keep it fairly Light going and what you want to avoid is lots of patterns so for example a way not to do this would be one on one off one on one off one on because it then ends up looking like teeth you really need to try and create A lot of variation amongst it so we take the action of spreading out each block over three and basically mix all of them as we make our way up the building you know this is actually starting to look really cool already now it’s possible when you lay Out your gradient it looks great here but when you actually put it on the building it may end up looking a little bit odd so don’t feel like you need to be committed 100 to the gradient if you need to swap out any singular block i thoroughly encourage you to do so Or you may feel like you need an extra one gradients take a little while to really understand and come to grips with so the thing that you want to do is always take a really long step back and assess what’s going on here so i’ve just taken a step back and i Actually think what i’ve done the mistake i’ve made is i’ve got way too much green i think the green or the concrete powder at least really wants to stop much further down than this so what i’m gonna do is eliminate some of the green layers and basically push the hard color Down a bit and there we go i’ve just edited it and that works a lot better yes there’s a solid line of green that will go around this but it’s way more subtle so what i’m going to do now is basically continue once i’m happy with one small Segment of it i’m basically going to continue this all the way around the build and see what it looks like and i’ve managed to wrap it around the entire build and you know what i think this might be my absolute favorite gradient of all time This new moss block is a bit of a game changer and the reason that i love this the most is because it in a sense represents a reality of some sort you could have actual vegetation that’s creeping its way up this old looking building and you’ll also notice i’ve Kind of broken my own rules a little bit because using the mossy cobble i actually made it creep up way further than it really should and this gives the impression that there’s actually like a bit of vines growing as well and also i’ve got a big do a big shout Out for glow lichen because this actually adds an awful lot as well now i feel like i’ve explained pretty much all about how to make a gradient work in your build but there’s a couple of extra little bits of information that i need to give you Before i depart so number one is that you need to let go of what a block is called or made of for example most people be like oh gravel i wouldn’t use gravel as a building block what or the most common one that i hear is wool i wouldn’t use wool when building Ingredients you need to look at the color and the texture it really doesn’t matter what it’s called it’s simply a means to a color scheme so to wrap this video up now that i’ve shown you all the different kinds of gradients how to put them in and What they can do for your builds it’s time to give you a bit of a cheat sheet list of all the different kinds of gradients that i can come up with and a big shout out to pearlescent moon as well who’s helping me put together these gradients then you can just choose which Color you like and take it and implement it into your build but i would also like to know which one of these is your favorite for me personally i quite like this one but i think it just tops out with the reality moss growing house over here so let’s take a look at All these different kinds of gradients so here we are we’ve got a bunch of different gradients now this doesn’t mean that every single blue block is in here just the ones that we think will you will find the most useful now it’s also worth noting that you are unlikely To include a gradient from all of these available it’s more likely you’re gonna choose somewhere between six to ten of these at most so i’m just going to pop up here and give you a chance to get a really good idea of all of the different colors i’m not Going to go through each and every single one of these blocks because that would take a long time and you should be able to identify which ones they are and some of them are a little less intuitive like this one goes from dark brown to light brown then All the way kind of to the creamy color of sand the blue goes from dark blue all the way up to the prismarine and then we’ve got greens yellow is pretty lackluster i must admit and then you’ve got some of the lighter shades there orange which is great for space age Stuff the dark red for your more easily looking builds and then this one is a unique one which is kind of an orange that goes to pink this one is also quite a nice palette to use so there you are all of the gradients that We feel you will find useful so this one trick should in theory change the way that you build if you do have a build take a picture beforehand and then try and apply a gradient and do a before and after picture be really interesting to see how they look And of course building is completely subjective so if you like to keep it completely plain you can thank you very much for watching and good bye Video Information
This video, titled ‘One trick to change the way you build in Minecraft’, was uploaded by Grian on 2021-04-29 19:00:07. It has garnered 1385758 views and 91284 likes. The duration of the video is 00:12:57 or 777 seconds.
One trick to change the way you build in Minecraft Grian in this building tutorial shares a trick that has become easier and easier as more blocks have been added to Minecraft. Try using it on your builds and see how it changes things!
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