Talk:RenderDragon

The name
I think the term "Render Dragon" is still the official name since it is the only name used in Minecraft.net and other official sources. The term "RenderDragon" is only used in the code of the game. As seen in the latest post about Render Dragon in PS4. skylord_wars (talk) 04:47, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, I'm one of the graphics engine devs who works on RenderDragon and helped coin the name RenderDragon. On the graphics team, we prefer to spell it "RenderDragon" as a single word; the name originally started with a pun on "Enderman" that evolved into RenderDragon. The main reason we prefer it as a single word is to keep with the pattern that most game/graphics engines or renderers available have a single word name (e.x.: RenderMan, Frostbite, CryEngine, Unreal, LuxCoreRender, YafaRay, etc.). Jocopa3 (talk) 23:16, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
 * @Jocopa3 are there any visual enhancements at the moment of PS4/Xbox One? I've seen some video gameplay and it looks the same as mobile/Windows 10 Bedrock.185.138.218.174 23:48, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
 * No. I want to emphasize that there should be no visual difference between RenderDragon and the old renderer, and if there are visual discrepancies, they are bugs. RenderDragon doesn't affect what gameplay draws or what things look like, so chunks, entities, particles, UI, etc., should all still look the same as before. One of the main goals of RenderDragon is to separate gameplay rendering code from lower-level rendering code; i.e. gameplay code shouldn't decide how to render things, only what to render, and it should be up to RenderDragon to decide how best to render something on each platform and graphics API. While this separation of gameplay rendering code and platform specific rendering code would make it easier to change the look of the game if we decide to do so in the future, RenderDragon by itself is not meant to make the game look any different that it did before. Jocopa3 (talk) 22:46, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Education Edition
Is RenderDragon also used in Education Edition, since it's similar to Bedrock Edition? If so, why isn't it mentioned on the page? Thomanski (talk) 21:29, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
 * No, it is not currently used in Education Edition. At the time of writing, RenderDragon is currently only available on Xbox & PS4 for Minecraft Bedrock, and iOS & Android for Minecraft Earth. No version of RenderDragon is publicly available on PC platforms at this time. Jocopa3 (talk) 23:16, 23 January 2020 (UTC)