TaCZ Performance & Polish

TaCZ Performance & Polish

Make TaCZ firefights smoother.

TaCZ Performance & Polish is a performance, visual-polish, and quality-of-life addon for Timeless and Classics Zero on Forge 1.20.1.

It focuses on reducing unnecessary rendering and effect load during large firefights while preserving TaCZ gunplay.

Current Features

Firefight Performance

• Adaptive effect budgeting during heavy combat
• Fire-rate-aware optimization for sustained automatic fire
• Emergency performance scaling during frame spikes
• Reduced unnecessary distant projectile/effect workload

Shell Casings

• Adaptive shell-casing limits
• Distance-based shell LOD
• Configurable shell lifetime and cleanup
• More aggressive cleanup during large firefights

Bullet Holes & Impacts

• Global bullet-hole budget
• Distance-based culling
• Configurable lifetime controls
• Impact coalescing during rapid fire

Tracers & Particles

• Adaptive tracer rendering
• Distance-based tracer quality
• Particle throttling under load
• Reduced underwater bullet particles
• Muzzle-flash protection and effect budgeting

Performance Presets

• Performance
• Balanced
• Quality

Presets control secondary visual effects without changing weapon damage or ballistics.

Per-Weapon Optimization

• Per-gun effect overrides
• Tracer tuning
• HUD/crosshair tuning
• Transition and visual-effect controls

ADS, FOV & Camera

• Smoother ADS/FOV transitions
• ADS sensitivity normalization
• Camera transition polish
• Variable zoom memory

Configuration

• In-game configuration screen
• Live performance/debug HUD
• Runtime effect counts and budget information

Renderer Compatibility

• Embeddium
• Oculus
• Accelerated Rendering
• Continued compatibility work for TaCZ addons and community gun packs

What It Does Not Intentionally Change

TaCZ Performance & Polish is designed to complement TaCZ, not replace its weapon system.

It does not intentionally rebalance:

• Weapon damage
• Accuracy
• Penetration
• Projectile physics
• Ammunition
• Attachment stats
• Native hit registration

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Forge
• Timeless and Classics Zero

Development

Current release: 2.5 — Firefight Optimization

Next major release: 3.0 — Gunplay & Combat Pipeline

Full update history is available in the changelogs attached to each release.