Small update which fixes some rendering issues and improves compatibility.

Compatibility

• Support for Continuity on Minecraft 1.21.4

Bugfixes

• Use uint32 index type if needed (fixes not rendered geometry if the index count was too high)
• Fixed quad normal rendering bug and reduced memory allocations
• Fixed flipped particle rendering

New release fixes a crash when rendering breeze wind and enhances mod compatibility.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a crash caused by an error in breeze_wind shader
• Fixed texture upload sync bug

Compatibility

• Improved texture compatibility

This release adds support for Minecraft 1.21.4 and fixes some mod compatibility issues. It also slightly improves chunk building speed.

Performance

• Chunk building speed improvement.

Settings

• Replaced "Fullscreen" and "Windowed Fullscreen" switch options with "Window Mode" option

Compatibility

• Improved framebuffer compatibility
• Fixed a crash when setting texture parameters
• Improved shader conversion

The key features of this release are Minecraft 1.21.3 support, terrain rendering CPU performance uplift, bugfixes and better compatiblity.

Performance

• CPU terrain rendering performance uplift
• Upload and layout transition command buffers compaction

Rendering

• Add back clouds fog

Bugfixes

• Fixed crash on clouds rendering
• Fixed a bug on gl framebuffer binding

Compatibility

• LambDynamicLights is now working

Other

• Allocated image memory is now tracked

This build fixes some annoying issues. Fabric API is no longer needed to run the mod.

Settings

• Updated "Backface culling" setting name and tooltip

Bugfixes

• Fixed crash on world loading without Fabric API
• Fixed index buffer crash when full
• Fixed block destruction overlay bug
• Fixed quad model culling issues (e.g. grass)
• Fixed issues with quad model's normal not being updated

This release brings some key features, as well as some bugfixes and compatibility improvements.

New Features

• Fabric Rendering API implementation (which will improve mod compatibility substantially)
• CPU backface culling (when enabled it can give up to 30% GPU performance uplift)
• Cloud Rendering optimization (improved performance and fixed vanilla visual glitches)
• Use sorted index buffer on immediate rendering if needed (fixes translucent models rendering)

Bugfixes

• Fixed biome color blending not applied is some cases

Compatibility

• Fixed a crash with ReplayMod on world joining

This release fixes some important issues affecting entity rendering and effects.

Bugfixes

• Fixed entity/block entity color format conversion (1.21)
• Fixed inverted render target blit
• Fixed visual artifacts when rendering outline effect
• Fixed a crash when taking a screenshot on some devices

With this release we have made some steps forward on compatibility with some popular mods, some bugs were fixed and a new crash report section with Vulkan devices' info was added to help us with debugging.

Mod compatibility improvements: Botania, Customizable Player Models, ETF, EMF, ESF, First Person Model, Freecam, Legendary Tooltips, Iceberg, Pick Up Notifier, Remove Reloading Screen

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug affecting quad sorting
• Fixed visual artifacts on chunk section updates
• Fixed logged error on world joining
• Fixed world icon screenshot recording

Compatibility

• Improved entity rendering compatibility
• Fixed shader's loading when using default namespace
• Improved glsl shader conversion
• Improved OpenGL emulation
• Improved texture compatibility
• Resolved some mixin conflicts

Debug

• Added available devices' info on crash reports