This mod is deprecated. Please use MAGE instead, which provides the same functionality.
SmoothWater is a simple mod which makes Minecraft water render smoothly on the surface, as well as ensuring liquids allow smooth lighting under them.
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It has no other functionality and is merely a visual tweak. It should be safe to add to modpacks as a default, too!
Additional showcase screenshots are available in the image gallery.
FAQ:
- Q: Hasn't Forge 2623+ fixed this issue?
- A: It fixed the second picture (smooth lighting not working underwater), but not the first one (smooth lighting not affecting the water surface). Minecraft 1.10.x and 1.11.x are still affected by both.
Project icon utilizes Unity textures by CyanideX.
This is a cool mod, but unfortunately I think it has some optimization issues. I made a world with the flat world ocean preset, and noticed a huge lag when I would break or place a chunk. I built a piston contraption on the surface of the water that pushes and retracts a block into the water rapidly, and noticed the game drop down to ~5fps. The same setup with the mod disabled doesn't have this issue. Looking at it with jvisualvm I think you may be creating a lot of new BlockPos instances, although I am not certain.
In reply to Darkhax:
does this fix the issues with either slabs or stairs underwater?
So, did forge version 2623 fix this and this mod is no longer necessary after that version?
can you add support for shaders?
In reply to Rcalkay_BlueIce:
In reply to asiekierka:
I got the missing textures on water and lava.
Could not figure it out, what causes that problem
There are all the mods i use
In reply to asiekierka:
-xray, betterfoliage ->still missing textures
In reply to Zwangi:
If you find how to fix this, pls tell
I love this so much, and would be amazed if I could get it to work. I'm having a missing texture issue with he surface of water. Only other mods I could think of causing the issue are, Optifine, Dynamic Surroundings, and maybe Better Foliage? I also have FoamFix and BetterFPS but I doubt those have anything that would cause the issue.
EDIT: Seems the issue was water particles in Dynamic Surroundings (not 100% sure, but I disabled them, reloaded my textures and the problem Is fixed) To anyone having this issue: Mod Options > Dynamic Surroundings > Config > Block Options > Block Effect Options > Set "Water Splash" to false.
In reply to asiekierka:
1.12.2
Seems my fix is only temporary too. Every time I shut down the game and start it back up I have to re-toggle the water particles that dynamic surroundings add. I'm not sure if that is EXACTLY what is causing the missing texture, but it does temporarily fix it if disabled. If you would really like to fix it and if it helps you in any way, here is a screenshot of my modlist https://imgur.com/a/QeFV9
In reply to Ctrlaltdelsato:
Turning off "Water Splash" disables the production of waterfall splash particles - that's it. I think your toggling of the setting and having it work is coincidental. Also, I am not able to repro the issue between DS and SmoothWater - it works for me. I am not using OptiFine.
This mod is very great and thanks for making this. :)
But why it 'eat' so much RAM?
I tried run together with FoamFix on Java 1.10.2 and 1.12.2, and it still take me almost 1 GB RAM...
from a low RAM user
To be honest, I never noticed that the lighting under water wasn't smooth. Now that TIL it, I wonder how it wasn't implemented in the base game.
Thank you very much, kind stranger, for spending your time to make such basic but necessary mod (which was probably very hard)! 🙂
This is something that was years in the making, or at least it's been years since I first hoped for this to be fixed. I'd just kinda accepted that fluids were just like that, but now it's fixed!
Really, thank you. I don't care how simple it is, this is a great change.
I do wonder, is something like this even possible back in 1.7.10? I know the general consensus is that people should move on, but there's just so much greatness that I keep coming back, and now with this in future versions, the gap between versions is just getting wider and more noticeable.