VulkanMod

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