The Blending of Color a Stained Glass guide for Vintage Story

[Cy9miner]

Vintage Story is a wonderfully versatile game that allows the player to build anything that they have mind to build. From extravagant castles or cathedrals to simple starter houses that are made from anything that can be found. Vintage Story, however unlike other survival block games, has the chisel that allows the possibility of extremely detailed builds within a 16 by 16 by 16 voxel block of space. One of things that can be achieved is custom glass windows (Image 1) and stained glass windows as well (Image 2). However that is not all stained glass can do, this guide will explain various techniques and methods for stain glass builds for the community of Vintage Story to turn your stained glass builds into works of art and beyond (Image 3).  
 

The Basics of Stained Glass Blending

Block That Can Be Used - In the game the blocks that currently are best used for stained glass are the full blocks of Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Brown, Violet, Pink, Vintage, Quartz, Smoky, and Clear Glass Blocks. Their Half Variants also can be used in chiseling stained glass, However it will give the player half the material voxels to a full block (exactly 2,048 voxel in total if you wanted to know) perfect for survival players who want to save material. Another transparent block that can be used in stained glass is Lake Ice and Glacier Ice which are extremely versatile but overpowering too other stained glass colors (More on that in Spacing and Transparency).

Mixing of Colors - Tip: Best way to understand blending colors in stained glass is to start with the primary colors of Red, Blue and Yellow and make their Secondary colors, example in (Image 4). All given values are the original block color are provided by Lawn on the (RBGA) Red, Blue, Green and Alpha (Quote). All excepted two blocks that are have transparency 30%. The working theory is 15% is equal to one face of a glass block or a panel this only possible when two differing types of glass panels are connected more about this with Panel Ratios. This also will effect the color produced when paired with additional stained glass. The exceptions are the Glacier Ice 70% and Lake Ice (30% < X < 70%) due to the their extreme opacity both will overpower all other colors when in a even ratio.

 

On 6/30/2025 at 6:38 AM, lawn said:

Pink 183 93 138 30%

Red 170 58 58 30%

Yellow 172 159 71 30%

Green 88 166 7 30%

Blue 10 95 120 30%

Violet 144 99 144 30%

Brown 119 63 9 30%

Smoky 66 61 58 30%

Quartz 141 130 125 i think 30%

Plain 183 189 189 10%

Glacier ice 169 208 237 70%

  

Also pairing panels into section is very helpful in keeping track of the colors being used. (Images) Four pairs of Red and Blue Glass making purple sheet of glass. 

Spacing and Transparency - Stained Glass requires spacing in-between the planal for blending to be visible. (Image 5: has four pairs of panels all red stained glass or eight panels in total). Blending will Not occur if the spacing is occupied by any other block, glass especially (Images 6-7). The amount of panels will affect the transparency, (Image 6) one pair to two pairs of stained glass is still see through anything above two pairs is not visible. Only light sources or other colored glass can be seen through when three to four pairs are used (Image 8). Tip : If the desired transparency that a player wants to achieve is a cloudily murky light blue or white color Glacier Ice or Lake Ice are the ideal choice.

Techniques: 

Constant Color-Stained Glass - If build best to use an even number of panels color to produce a consistent color no matter the face front or back. To retain a constant color from close up or further away alternate each pair - for better results use a limited choice of colored panel pairs usually two colors - the better color blending will occur. 

Panel Ratios - Panel ratio provides a larger selection of color choices from pairing panels. However it is difficult to do (Working on).

Holographic Stained Glass (Working on) - A technique that causes a designs or patterns to have more depth or the desired effect of a still image to have movement. Review Builds by Lawn. Work on Test Neptune. 

Blending of Light Blocks (Working On)

 

 

 

 

 

Contributors,

Cy9miner and Lawn

Edited January 29 by Cy9miner
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