VulkanMod (VulkanMod)

New release comes with:
- 1.21.5 support
- Reduced memory usage (and possibly improved performance depending on architecture)
- Many bugfixes and compatibility improvements

## **Performance**
- Reduced terrain vertex format's size from 20 to 16 bytes

## **Options**
- Added "Builder Threads" setting

## **Compatibility**
- Improved OpenGL compatibility
- Improved Fabric rendering API compatibiltiy

## **Bugfixes**
- Fixed y-axis biome blending bug
- Fixed texture filtering bugs
- Fixed leash and beacon rendering bugs
- Fixed bug where global block entities were not updated on destruction

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

This release is an hotfix for a bug regarding textures on 1.21.x version and another one affecting mainly Intel iGPUs chunk uploading and drawing.

# **Bugfixes**
- Fixed a bug regarding texture binding on Minecraft version 1.21.x
- Fixed a bug affecting iGPUs (mainly Intel)

# **Compatibility**
- Fixed texture binding issues (e.g. JourneyMap)

This release fixes some critical issues, such as chunk corruption and crashes on window resizing. It also fixes some compatibility issues with `The Bumblezone` and `Polytone` mods.

# **Compatibility**
- Added matrix3f uniform
- Fixed crash when using _The Bumblezone_ mod
- Fixed texture issues with _Polytone_

# **Bugfixes**
- Fixed chunk corruption on chunk loading
- Fixed a crash when resizing window or toggling fullscreen

# **Compatibility**
- Fixed JourneyMap (1.21) crash on waypoint beacon rendering

This release fixes some critical bugs, improves memory usage and mod compatibility.

# **Perfomance**
- Reduced device memory usage (VRAM)

# **Compatibility**
- Fixed Debugify crash on Linux

# **Bugfixes**
- Fixed chunk rendering bug regarding quad index buffer
- Fixed device memory leak on world reloading
- Fixed video settings screen background rendering bug (1.21)

New release fixes JourneyMap compatibility on Minecraft 1.21 and also comes with small perfomance uplifts and some important bugfixes.

# **Perfomance**
- Slightly improved CPU performance
- Small GPU performance improvement (5% at most)

# **Bugfixes**
- Fixed chunk not updating after going beyond RD and coming back
- Added glint strength uniform
- Added 32 bits quad index buffer for draw calls that use higher index count
- Fix compressed vertex format precision bugs (e.g. fire Z-fighting)

# **Compatibility**
- Implemented FRAPI shader loading
- Fixed JourneyMap 1.20.6+ compatibility
- Prevent drawing when buffer builder and shader formats don't match to prevent visual bugs (e.g. BetterNether Firefly)

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

**Performance**
- Improved chunk build time (up to 2x faster or even more on vsync)

**Compatibility**
- Improved mod compatibility for mods using custom textures

- Updated _lwjgl_ to 3.3.2
- Added _macOS_ libs on main branch (unified jar)

**Bugfixes**
- Fixed block entities rendering (broken textures)

**Updated to Minecraft 1.20.2**

**Performance**
- Added _Entity Culling_ with relative option

**Compatibility**
- Removed dynamic rendering to bring back older devices compatibility
- Improved mod compatibility
- Fixed crash on startup when (not supported) fabulous graphics setting was selected

**Bugfixes**
- Fixed freeze when using _Alt+Tab_ on AMD + Windows
- Fixed bug causing no rendering and lag on level change

**Graphics**
- Improved mipmap texture details on far meshes

**Bugfixes**
- Fixed section grid height bug
- Fixed crash when background text rendertype was used

**Release 0.3.1**

**Performance**
- Improved performance
- New "unique opaque layer" option (default enabled)

**Compatibility**
- Revert Vulkan API requirements to Vulkan 1.2
- Improved GL textures compatibility

**Bugfixes**
- Fixed end portal texture bug
- Fixed rendering bug when using indirect draw

**VulkanMod release 0.3.0**

This release features a reworked renderer, bringing a performance boost.

- Vulkan 1.3 is now required

**Performance**
- Improved CPU and GPU performance
- Improved video memory usage
- Improved Chunk loading/upload
- Indirect draw mode setting
- Now using dedicated device queues

**Compatibility**
- Improved general compatibility
- Fixed ttf font textures not rendering properly

**Bugfixes**
- Fixed block outline not rendered
- Fixed a bug when reloading chunks that caused chunks not being rendered, in certain world positions
- Fabric API 0.76 is now compatible
- Spectator mode now renders all chunks when camera is inside a full solid chunk
- Bug where nothing was rendered when camera went outside world's bound heights is now fixed

- Updated to Minecraft 1.19.4

- Minor bugfixes
- Improved compatibility

**Settings**
- Chunk compile mode setting is now effective

**Bugfixes**
- Fixed crash on resource pack reload
- Fixed crash on while browsing menu
- Fixed bug on async texture creation

**Compatibility**

- Improved mod compatibility (e.g. JourneyMap, JEI)
- Improved linux compatibility (Mesa AMD)

- Watermask fix
- Enchantment screen fix
- Dedicated gpu is now preferred
- Fixed light direction