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[noobnooby]

Now I will never unsee it. Thanks. I lived my entire life thinking chiseled stone brick was centered, and now it will haunt me everytime I see the block.

[SunshineCasy]

There's a good reason it isn't centered. In the original pixel art, the dark outline is actually a drop shadow, which is only on the bottom and right. This prevents it from being 2x thick when the texture is repeated, and it gives it a more 3D look when combined with lighter highlights around the top and left. In order to fit these details, the center has to move aside one pixel in each direction. Since the shading makes it look good, your mind doesn't notice the texture is off center by 1/8 except in this rare instance. I did texture packs for a while, and in a lot of cases I offset the center by one or two pixels to include an outer shadow.

[SaturatedScug]

The original texture looks natural, the aligned version looks… unnatural or inhuman, like somethings off about it, can’t tell

[azagwen]

I find it hilarious how people voluntarily completely misunderstand why this block's center is off, and that it's actually consistent and voluntary

[Gamer_]

One problem is the lighting, it needs to be off centerd somewhere to fit with stonebricks. Maybe try just removing the top and left dark edges from your design

[inmusicsam]

Its not uncentered, technically. The last rows of pixels on the right and in the bottom are used to express a shadow to make them look more 3D, which is why the whole design is shifted up and left

[NotVDGAOWE]

The block is actually centered, it's just that the lights seem to make it not centered.

[JoshwaLaw]

I've never seen a more CONVOLUTED way of re-texturing something in my entire life.

[jackatk]

It’s centered now, but when you tile it there’s gonna be thick and ugly lines. It’ll look even worse

[haph]

The reason it isn't centered (and *none* of the bricks or planks are) is so that it tiles nicely.

If you have a border at the top of the block, and at the bottom of the block, two blocks on top of each other make a doublewide border.

When you want single pixel wide borders, you have to adopt the style Mojang does, and so they did.

And that's why Mojang sacrificed single blocks looking perfect in exchange for groups of blocks looking perfect.

[VoodooChiller]

"I'm fixing something that doesn't have anything to fix because I don't understand it's purpose"

[catteljaloux]

as an ADHD person... you, centering the chiseled stone brick block design has also brought me immense joy

you deserve a follow

[poomonyoutube]

I don't know if it'll look better, but I suggest you try and see in making the center square 4x4 instead of 2x2 will work

[TriceCardz]

Can we just give this guy some props for responding to every comment

[ColieYeung]

for a sec, i thought this was the mace 💀

[NotJ_hn]

It feels relieving but it also feels not relieving because i mostly know it is not centered but i hate it when it's not centered but i also love it when it's not centered (don't judge me)

[Cyberpanda-ugbf]

All of the variations of smooth stones are off center aswell to fill the purpose of a one pixel border line if you place them in a grid

[suzannacercle]

The "voilà! " killed me. Bro you got a good French accent

[Rapidxfire]

"That one Unemployed friend on Monday 💀"

[papiricoyermozouwu]

Its actually pretty common to have this in pixel art textures, because if the texture was like the one you made when having more than 1 block paired it the dark outline would be 2 pixels so it would look thicker