📜 Bubblify Mod — Patch Notes

Version 1.7 — Bubble Rendering Improvements 💬✨

🛠️ Rendering Changes

• Reworked the Bubble Chat rendering pipeline to improve in-world visual stability.

• Moved bubble rendering to the RenderLevelStageEvent flow.

• Bubbles are now rendered during the AFTER_PARTICLES stage.

• Added camera-relative positioning so speech bubbles remain attached above the correct player.

• Added interpolated player coordinates using partialTick for smoother movement while walking, jumping, or moving quickly.

• Improved billboard behavior so each bubble continues to face the player’s camera.

👥 Visibility Improvements

• Speech bubbles now render above nearby players, mobs, dropped items, and particles.

• Added depth-test disabling during bubble rendering to prevent entities from appearing in front of the bubble.

• Disabled depth-buffer writing for bubbles, preventing them from incorrectly hiding later-rendered visual elements.

• Restored the normal rendering state after each bubble pass to reduce conflicts with Minecraft rendering, shaders, and other mods.

🎨 Bubble Visuals

• Added a custom pixel-style rounded bubble background.

• Added a black outer border for better readability.

• Added a speech-tail pointer beneath each bubble.

• Preserved custom RGB bubble colors selected by players.

• Bubble text can still be configured to use either white or black coloring.

• Added full-bright text rendering so messages remain readable in dark areas. 🌙

💬 Message Behavior

• Active bubbles remain visible for 300 ticks.

• Players can have up to 3 visible messages at the same time.

• When a fourth message is received, the oldest bubble is removed automatically.

• Multiple bubbles are displayed vertically, with smooth spacing transitions.

• Bubble colors are sanitized to RGB format before being stored or synchronized. 🎨

⚙️ Network and Stability

• Improved client-side bubble creation through the centralized ClientForgeEvents.addBubble(...) method.

• Maintained packet-based synchronization between server and clients.

• Preserved the 256-character message limit for network safety.

• Added safer rendering-state handling recommendations to prevent graphical issues if a render error occurs.

🧪 Compatibility

• Improved compatibility with shader-based rendering setups.

• Designed to work more reliably with Forge 1.20.1 rendering behavior.

• Recommended testing setup: Forge 1.20.1 + Embeddium + Oculus + preferred shader pack. 🌌

⚠️ Known Limitation

• Because depth testing is disabled, speech bubbles may be visible through blocks, walls, terrain, and other world geometry.

• This is intentional in the current implementation to ensure the bubble remains readable and is not hidden by nearby mobs or players. 👁️