Create: Covered

Added

• Sodium support. Covers are drawn through Sodium's own chunk-mesh pipeline exactly as they are through vanilla's, including connected-texture covers (Athena, Fusion, Chipped, Rechiseled, ...) and covers whose block draws in a different render pass than the mechanism, such as glass, leaves or iron bars.

Fixed

• Covered mechanisms no longer flicker or Z-fight with their cover. The cover is now baked directly into the chunk terrain mesh in place of the mechanism, instead of being drawn a second time every frame in the block-entity pass, so there is only ever one surface at that position.
• Fixed covers flickering and showing a shifting shadow artifact when shaders (Iris/OptiFine) are active. Because the cover is now ordinary terrain rather than a block entity, shaders light and shadow it exactly like every surrounding block instead of through their separate block-entity pass.
• Preserved biome tint on covers that use a tinted block (grass, leaves, water, ...); they now take their proper color in the terrain mesh instead of rendering flat/gray.
• Two adjacent covers that use a block which merges with itself, such as glass, no longer show a seam where they meet: the shared faces were being culled against the mechanism's shape rather than the cover's, so both got drawn.
• Fixed the coverable block tag failing to load entirely without Create: Encased, which left the mod inert - no block coverable at all, not even Create's own. Its Create: Encased entries are now optional. (1.0.3 claimed this fix but did not actually apply it.)
• Fixed a race that could corrupt a mechanism's stored cover or crash the client: simply reading whether a mechanism was covered also wrote to it, and that read happens from several chunk-build threads at once.

Changed

• Reduced the cost of the connected-texture support, which previously inspected every neighbouring block the chunk builder asked about rather than only the ones that can be covered.

Known issues

• Covers do not render with ModernFix's mixin.perf.dynamic_resources option enabled. That option is off by default in ModernFix; turn it off if you use this mod. Everything else, Sodium and Iris shaders included, is unaffected.