Happy 10th birthday, Chunky! 🥳
I'm afraid the cake did not make it into this version, so please take this one instead: 🍰
As always, a huge thank you to everyone who made this release possible! That does not just involve contributing code, but also reporting bugs, trying out new features, verifying if bugs are fixed, performance benchmarks, improving the documentation and submitting suggestions.
Special thanks go to @aTom3333, @073TheBoss, @jackjt8 and @NJDaeger. This changelog wouldn't be half as long without you. And, last but not least, to @llbit for creating Chunky and allowing us to maintain it. 🙏
✨ Highlights
- Add emitter sampling for faster convergence and less emitter noise
- Add support for player head blocks with custom skins
- Render the books on lecterns and enchanting tables and make them poseable in the entities panel
- Fix jello water caused by interaction between water plane and normal water
- Add biome-based water color
- Performance and memory usage improvements
🎁 New Features
- Add emitter sampling for faster convergence and less emitter noise
- Add support for player head blocks with custom skins
- Render the books on lecterns
- Render the books on enchanting tables and allow posing them
- Add new 1.16 jigsaw block orientations
- Add a new big packed octree for very large scenes and a selector for the octree implementation; plugins can now add custom octrees
- Add rule of thirds guides
- Add support for exporting rendered images in PFM format
💅 Improvements
- Allow changing the output format in the “Save current frame” dialog
- Improve alpha computation performance
- Make fog work underwater
- Make the fog slider logarithmic
- Update the chain model for 1.16.2-pre1
- Refactor chunk textures and water normal map to reduce memory usage
- Improve octree optimization and scene loading
- Add a selector for the octree implementation
- Show a confirm dialog when trying to overwrite an existing scene
- Save scenes in per-scene directories (old scenes can still be loaded)
- Update biome names and grass/foliage colors
- Improve biome colors in the 2d map
- Optimize the octree size
- Reduce memory usage of textures (especially when using high-resolution resourcepacks)
🐛 Bugfixes
- Fix rendering deadlock caused by cloud intersections
- Fix jello water caused by interaction between water plane and normal water
- Fix water block below vines
- Fix player helmet rotation
- Fix selection rectangle alignment in the 2d map view
- Fix Chunky not exiting in headless mode
- Fix scene zip export
- Fix camera tab not updating when moving the camera in the 2d map view
- Fix loading of (partially) corrupted chunks, should fix loading spigot/papercraft worlds
- Fix tall flowers in the materials tab
- Fix position of skulls attached to walls
- Fix missing texture for turtle helmet
- Fix hat and helmet sizes not matching the ingame sizes
- Fix some headless mode options not working
- Fix campfire rendering bug (flame clipping)
- Fix render not being reset when the ray depth is changed
- Disable the load chunks button if no world is loaded
- Fix not being able to load some 1.16 chunks
- Fix spruce and birch leaves and lily pads color
- Fix wrong render time when rendering a scene that was rendered before but that doesn't have the dump anymore