Features / Improvements
- Replaced the back end data structure with a quad tree
- This gives improved visual quality and allows for varying levels of detail, generally based on distance.
- Reduced stuttering, optimized memory usage, and reduced the frequency of garbage collection.
- Re-implemented the debug config option (It now shows the detail level)
- Allowed any detail setting to be used with any LOD distance
- I.E. removed the direct buffer memory limit
- Improved file read/write speed
- Multi-threaded the buffer builder
- Improved distance LOD generation speed LODs are now generated at low detail first and then higher detail later.
- Added simple culling LODs behind the player aren't rendered
- Added the ability to disable the distance generator Just in case the user has a lower powered CPU and any distance generation is too much.
- Replaced the LOD multiplier with a render distance in the config
- optimized distance generation queuing Generation will be faster and CPU usage will be higher because the requests are generated more efficiently.
- Optimized rendering by:
- Ignoring faces that aren't facing the player
- Culling faces that are covered by other LODs
- Improved foliage color generation Trees are darker to better match their actual color
- Improved mycelium color
- Reduced how often LODs are saved to file
- Added support for the night vision potion effect.
Bugfixes
- Distance generation will no longer generate the same chunk multiple times
- Fixed cave air acting like a solid block I.E. ravines and caves will look how you would expect
- Reduced how often LODs are drawn on top of regular chunks and the player
- Fixed the config settings not being applied (bug in 1.3.2)
Note:
This version has been confirmed to work in Eclipse and retail Minecraft. (retail running Forge: 1.16.5-36.1.0)
How can I download this mod?
click the "lod_1.16.5-a1.4.jar" link
How to compile
- download the source code and extract it somewhere
- open a command line in the project folder
- run the command: "./gradlew build"
- the compiled jar file will be in the folder "minecraft-lod-mod-XXXXX\build\libs"