Distant Horizons

Highlights:

• Add MC 26 support
• Upped API version 5.1.0 -> 6.0.0
• Add support for rendering via Blaze3D (Mojang's rendering API)
  • This will allow for easier support of Vulkan when MC releases that update
  • Blaze3D also fixes generic object rendering (IE clouds and beacons) on Mac
• Fix Mac native crash when rendering with OpenGL and Sodium
  • Unfortunately this required fully removed beacon/cloud rendering on Mac, please use the Blaze3D rendering API (MC 1.21.11 and newer) to see clouds/beacons
• Pre-existing LODs initially load at a lower quality and slowly increase over time
  • This fills in your distant view faster and improves LODs quality when moving quickly
• Improve framerate stability
• Send a chat warning if a Garbage Collector is being used that is known to cause stuttering
• Whole bunch of bug fixes and speed improvements
• Servers running DH will need to be updated to 3.0.0 to support DH 3.0.0 clients

Full Changelog

Additions:

• Send a chat message if the server doesn't support your DH version
• Split server retrieval (world gen) into it's own setting
• Add dynamic overdraw distance based on camera speed
• Add a config to disable DH rendering for specific dimensions types
  • IE you can disable DH rendering for minecraft:nether
• Add colors to the F3 screen
• Add Blaze3D rendering backend for MC 1.21.11 and newer
  • This is done to pave the way for MC moving to Vulkan
• Add render task profiling to the F3 menu
• Add the ability to go back a config option by shift-clicking

Improvements:

• Expand DH rendered beacons to improve visibility and reduce aliasing
• Pause world gen when moving to quickly to improve LOD loading speed
• Fix LOD arbitrary loading rate limit
  • LOD loading can now use the full CPU
• Reduce GC pressure when loading LODs from disk
• Make generic object data generation async
• Remove unused ID mappings from ID data
  • This reduces file size slightly and drastically improves LOD loading time for low-quality LODs
• Improve render data load error handling
• Reduce memory use slightly when loading LODs
• Remove a few unneeded warning logs
• Add a log message when vanilla settings are disabled for clarity
• Add the ability to cull lilly pads, sea grass, etc.
• Drastically improve framerate stability
• Dynamically get beacon base blocks via block tags for MC 1.18.2 and newer
• Reduce locking when handling beacon colors in chunk updates

Changes:

• Upped API version 5.1.0 -> 6.0.0
• Pre-existing LODs initially load at a lower quality and slowly increase over time
• handle cave block culling more generically
  • IE you don't have to define each cave block, most will be automatically handled
• re-add the ignored blocks CSV config option to the UI
• Hide non-rendering levels from the F3 screen
• Re-add chat warning if G1GC is used as it is known to cause stuttering
• Auto disable MC's fabulous transparency due to rendering issues
• Always disable instanced rendering on Mac
  • Mac has an OpenGL issue where instanced rendering if enabled in any way (at least DH's implementation) will very likely cause a native OpenGL renderer crash. Disabling it is the only way to fix it.
• Stop world pre-gen on server shutdown
• Only run world gen for rendering client levels
• Use full slab block variant when determining color
• Remove "WorldGen requiring [chunkStatus] is outside the expected range. Returning EMPTY chunk." log in world gen.
• Ignore ProtoChunks in chunk update events
• Changed the channel network message are sent on to allow for backporting to MC versions before 1.13

Bug Fixes:

• Fix neoforge failing to load some jar resources (IE Sql Scripts and the cloud texture specifically)
• Fix forge not rendering DH's icon
• Fix some concurrent iteration of the QuadTree
• Make sure the network payload is readable
• Fix some config descriptions
• Fixed beacons sometimes not disappearing/appearing properly
• Fix a memory leak when MC is running at 0 FPS
• Handle null level loading
• fix the triangle debug renderer on modern MC versions
• fix near clip plane flickering
• fix a rare world gen phantom closing issue
• fix Api config.getApiValu() not returning null as specified by the javadocs (fixes !1088)
• fix fog falloff config not being used
• fix a few cases of closed DB connections
• fix the update propagator only re-queueing once the queue is empty
  • This should improve the rate at which high-quality LODs are downsampled to low-quality LODs, increasing perceived world gen speed.
• Fix losing some thread pool tasks in rare cases
• Fix Mac native crash when rendering with OpenGL
• Fix underwater fog not rendering if DH fog is disabled
• Fix dark LODs when tintWithAvoidedBlocks is false
• Fix chunks appearing in the wrong dimensions
• Fix phantom/low-memory logging when there is still free memory
• Fix Iris using the wrong far clip plane
• Fix the world gen progress bar getting stuck and not updating when moving between dimensions
• Fix beacon beams going through tinted glass
• Fix white/untinted water when using certain mods like BCLib
• Fix fabric debug keys
• Fix opening DH in forge's mod menu (#678)
• Fix farmland color (#690)

Removals:

• Remove MC Texture LodBias config
  • This option was broken in modern MC versions and very rarely mentioned/used
• Remove incomplete standalone jar GUI
• Remove most SSAO config options
  • this is the start of cleaning up the config and removing unnecessary options that most people don't need
  • The SSAO config has been generally agreed to be in a good place, so no configuration should be necessary
• Remove instanced rendering config option
  • Instanced rendering will always be used if available, except for Mac where generic rendering will always be disabled when using OpenGL for rendering