Lighty

Hello everyone!

This release is the last release made from github.com. From now on, all further development will be on codeberg.org. In the short term, the GitHub repo will be archived and made read only, until the end of the year. Afterwards, it will be deleted.

I am happy to announce that Lighty for Minecraft 26.1.2 is now available, with the following changes:

• Internal changes w.r.t. Overlay rendering. As a result, we have:
  • More performant Overlay Rendering
  • Restored Iris/Shader support!
  • The pixelated Cross Mode is back, replacing the clean line Cross Mode (because of current technical limitations)
  • The overlay is now displayed across the entire render distance. In testing, enabling/disabling the overlay may cause short (<=500ms) game stutters when playing on a Minecraft Render Distance of 32 chunks. Afterwards, there is almost no noticeable performance difference between having the Overlay enabled or not (worst case observed on my hardware was ~30fps). Using sodium, the stutters on Overlay toggle are well reduced, and overall rendering performance increases.
• Overall Lighty code complexity has been reduced. Hopefully less stuff will break from now on, so that I can focus more on new features and improvements!
• Switched to a new MultiLoader Template in response to big build-system changes.

I want to thank everyone who took the time and contributed code, issues, and discussions to Lighty on GitHub. Your contributions are highly appreciated, and maybe we'll meet again over on codeberg.

Additionally, the SchmarrnDevs Discord server has been closed. Further communication will take place over codeberg issues.

Of course, releases will still be made available on Modrinth and Curseforge.

Special thanks to Sophie, without whom I'd have never discovered this alternate way of rendering the overlay.

Thanks for everything, see you on codeberg, and have fun!