New release bringing Minecraft 1.21 support, some important bugfixes and compatibility improvements.

Perfomance

• Minor GPU performance uplift thanks to fog function refactor

Bugfixes

• Fixed builder errors leading to no chunk building
• Fixed wrong biome tint
• Fixed crash on texture filter update when image was not initialized
• Fixed DEBUG_LINE_STRIP topology conversion

Compatibility

• Added Fabric fluid sprite handler
• Reverted vanilla chunk border renderer (F3 + G)

Bugfixes

• Fixed rendering bug on 1.20.4 version (flipped viewport) when applying post effects (e.g. glowing effect)
• Fixed LINES render type bug

Compatibility

• Implemented DEBUG_LINES topology
• Improved compatibility
• Fixed hard crash on shader compilation when compiler errors occur

New version comes with a new setting screen, Minecraft 1.20.5 support and many bugfixes.

Settings

• Video Settings screen rework

Bugfixes

• Fixed VoxelShape conflict when using Lithium causing gaps between blocks (e.g. grass paths, farmlands)
• Fixed bug where some biomes ware not considered for chunk building
• Fixed wrong entity color encoding
• Fixed borderless window wrong position and dimensions
• Fixed upload corruption caused on some state changes (e.g. world load/unload)

This version brings multiple performance improvements and new graphical feature:

• CPU and GPU rendering up to 15-30% faster depending on hardware.
• Smoother frametime on higher render distances.
• Chunk building (loading) up to 5x times faster.
• New lighting system which takes into account non-full blocks for ambient occlusion (needs to be enabled on Video Settings -> Smooth Lighting -> On (Sub-block)).

Perfomance

• GPU performance uplift by rendering on swap chain images directly
• Reduced GPU memory consumption and improved performance by using per rendertype buffers
• Reduced GPU memory usage due to AreaBuffer rework
• CPU performance improvement when using direct draw due to removal of section offset push constants
• Reworked section graph and bfs to improve performance and frame time stability
• Improved chunk build time by up to 5 times

Graphics

• New Sub-block AO (needs to be enabled in video settings)

Bugfixes

• Fixed world border not rendering
• Fixed crash when minimizing window while loading a world
• Fixed screenshots color swapping when using swap chain BGR format
• Fixed lighting bug on text rendertype
• Fixed some errors on vertex encoding
• Fixed errors on color encoding
• Fixed window border bug on Wayland-Gnome
• Fixed crash when using breeze_rendertype
• Fixed crash when loading data packs
• Fixed GlTexture crash due to wrong target check
• Mipmap level is now updated on setting change

Other

• Removed deprecated GUI optimzations setting

Bugfixes

• Fixed a crash on startup affecting Intel GPUs mainly

0.3.8

Graphics

• Improved grass (and grass like) texture rendering with Unique Opaque Layer on

Performance

• Improved particle rendering performance up to 2-3x (worst case)

Compatibility

• Added post effect compatibility (e.g. glowing effect is now rendering correctly)
• Implemented gl Framebuffers
• Improved overall gl compatibility

Bugfixes

• Fixed bug affecting entity culling
• Fixed missing auto screenshot after world load

Updated to Minecraft 1.20.4

Graphics

• Improved grass rendering while unique opaque layer setting is off
• Video settings screen is now transparent while in game

Features

• New device selector on Other tab of Video Settings screen

Bugfixes

• Fixed entity texture bug on 1.20-1.20.1

Compatibility

• Wayland support
• Fixed linux swapchain issues

Bugfixes

• Fixed sync error on chunk update (uploading)
• Fixed sync errors on layout transitions

Performance

• Minor shaders optimizations