Distant Horizons: A Level of Detail mod

Highlights:

• Add MC 26.3 support
• Upped API version 7.0.1 -> 7.1.0
• Add a high-speed surface world generator to MC 1.19.2 and newer
• Add Anti-Aliasing
• Fix Iris shadow maps rendering incorrectly
• Fix needing to reload Iris to have the correct depth texture in certain cases
• Reduce disk usage by about 50%
  • Note: file sizes are the same, this change just reduces the work your hard drive needs to do.

Full Changelog

Additions:

• A texture Mipmaps to fix grainy texture rendering
• Proof-of-concept pirate translation
• Add Temporal Antialiasing to fix flicking/noise in distant terrain
• Add high-speed surface world gen to MC 1.19.2 and newer
• Add support for Iris 1.11.4
  • Added the ability for shader devs to access DH textures
• Add /dh help command
• Add the ability for DH to render with forward or reverse Z
  • Reverse Z is used normally and fixes issues with the far clip plane
  • forward Z is used for old Iris shaders that require it
• Add fading support for 1.12.2

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Improvements:

• Improve render loading speed
• Prioritize loading LODs for rendering over other thread tasks
• Disable update propagator if the Chunk-to-LOD builder is busy
• Significantly improve database speed with Chunky and C2ME
• Improve database migration speed slightly
• parallelize thread pool shutdown to reduce shutdown time
• Improve cross-chunk lighting significantly
• Optimize blaze3D debug rendering
• Reduce disk usage by about 50% in some cases
  • File sizes are the same, this change just reduces the work your hard drive needs to do.
  • This was done by changing SQLite's Synchronization from FULL to NORMAL
  • Disk usage can be further reduced by changing Synchronization to OFF in the config, at the risk of database corruption on power loss
• Improve LodDataBuilder's API validation error message
• Significantly improve world gen task queuing for fast custom world generators
• Improve DH's handling for custom mod fluids

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Changes:

• Rate limit DH chat messages to make them easier to read
• Send a chat message warning if Windows long file paths are needed
• Reduce the Extreme quality preset drop-off slightly
• Re-add DisableChunkHashCheck to the config UI
  • Enabling can be helpful if you are limited by your disk speed
• Disable logExplicitGcDisabledWarning by default
  • This shouldn't be as big an issue since we pool our ByteBuffers now
• Pause world gen if the server thread is overloaded or the player/camera is moving quickly
  • This is done to reduce stuttering/CPU load and provide a smoother experience.
  • both options can be toggled in the config if faster world gen is desired over smoothness.
• Add javadoc and config messages for MC 1.12
• Remove deprecated rendering API warning for OpenGL
• Limit the lowest possible detail level to prevent rendering corrupted terrain caused by a downsampling issue
• Increase the maxTexturedLodDetailLevel config's max value from 4 -> 8
• Don't link DH thread count to C2ME unless Chunky is also present
  • Using Chunky and DH isn't recommended due to the possibility of holes, but having DH use the same thread count as Chunky should help reduce those issues.
  • But having the same number of threads as C2ME can cause undesired CPU usage when Chunky is absent.
• Ignore case in BlockState deserialization
  • Done to fix a few issues with the plugin
• Relocate the XZ library to fix issues with other mods including it

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Bug Fixes:

• Fix black lighting under floating islands
• fix server level not setting a DH Level causing a null pointers in some cases
• Fix F3 screen flipping the "Render Load" and "File Handler" stats
• Fix snow rendering incorrectly on LOD borders
• Fix water rendering under ice
• Fix cave berries causing weird lighting over water
• Fix config UI not showing "Set by API" if the option is rapidly changed
• Fix needing to reload Iris to have correct shader depth in certain cases
• Fix Sqlite queries sometimes timing out
• Fix LOD downsampling causing monoliths
• Fix underwater bright spots due to downsampling incorrectly
• Fix rendering when Immersive Portals is present
• Fix LODs not saving in some cases when changes are present
• Fix vanilla fading not appearing when Iris is present
• Fix 1.12.2 LAN not sending LODs
• Fix Iris shadow maps rendering with the wrong size, causing shadows to be corrupted
• Fix zoom quality causing issues with Iris' shadow pass
• Fix massive lag when zoomed in and spinning the camera
• Fix block textures being blurry on NVIDIA GPUs
• Prevent timer failure during world unload (!1287)
• Fix the far clip plane flashing when taking damage (!983)
  • Also fixes clouds flickering when view bobbing is enabled or damage is taken
• Fix ThermalDynamics having invalid textures on 1.12.2
• Fix connecting to a server server requesting DH as dependency on 1.12.2
• Fix DH being ignored if loaded in a Forge environment on 1.12.2
• Fix DH GL texture bind leaking on 1.12.2 causing issue with some mods
• Fix grass being rendered incorrectly if LOD textures are enabled on 1.12.2