Lighty

Hello everyone!

Lighty v4.0.1 for Minecraft 26.1.2 brings the following changes:

• Refactoring of internal Lighty code
• Reduced stutters when enabling the overlay

Additionally, the repo is now hosted on Codeberg!! This means that the old GitHub-based automatic release workflow no longer works. You can consider this release as a test of the new automated release workflow.

For now, this workflow only consists of publishing the mod to modrinth and curseforge automatically. Creating a Codeberg release is done manually for now.

Have fun!

Hello everyone!

Lighty v4.0.1 for Minecraft 26.1.2 brings the following changes:

• Refactoring of internal Lighty code
• Reduced stutters when enabling the overlay

Additionally, the repo is now hosted on Codeberg!! This means that the old GitHub-based automatic release workflow no longer works. You can consider this release as a test of the new automated release workflow.

For now, this workflow only consists of publishing the mod to modrinth and curseforge automatically. Creating a Codeberg release is done manually for now.

Have fun!

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!

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!

Hello everyone!

The next release of Lighty for Minecraft 26.1.2 will be the final release on GitHub. The repo will move to codeberg afterwards! More information in the release notes for Lighty for Minecraft 26.1.2.

This release for Lighty v3.1.4 (a pi release!) for Minecraft 1.21.11 brings the following changes:

• Arabic translations by @Adam989-mc, thank you for your contribution!
• Fix for #120, Lighty is now showing a technically correct overlay in the overworld!
• Fix for #121, carpet mode no longer shows through solid blocks when using Fabulous! graphics.
• New feature as described in #122: There now is a text notification when toggling the overlay on/off. Very useful if you've disabled the Show Safe option.

This release is only PARTLY WORKING with IRIS. Boring cross mode is functional, but if you rely on Carpet/Number mode and are using shaders, those two modes won't show. Please disable shaders or use boring cross mode while I try to figure out how to solve this issue. This issue gets tracked in https://github.com/SchmarrnDevs/Lighty/issues/118.

Regarding Lighty for Minecraft 26.1.2: Please have some patience still. Not only was the release badly timed with Easter, but then Create Aeronautics launched, which may or may not have eaten some of my free time :)

Thanks for your understanding, have fun!

Hello everyone!

The next release of Lighty for Minecraft 26.1.2 will be the final release on GitHub. The repo will move to codeberg afterwards! More information in the release notes for Lighty for Minecraft 26.1.2.

This release for Lighty v3.1.4 (a pi release!) for Minecraft 1.21.11 brings the following changes:

• Arabic translations by @Adam989-mc, thank you for your contribution!
• Fix for #120, Lighty is now showing a technically correct overlay in the overworld!
• Fix for #121, carpet mode no longer shows through solid blocks when using Fabulous! graphics.
• New feature as described in #122: There now is a text notification when toggling the overlay on/off. Very useful if you've disabled the Show Safe option.

This release is only PARTLY WORKING with IRIS. Boring cross mode is functional, but if you rely on Carpet/Number mode and are using shaders, those two modes won't show. Please disable shaders or use boring cross mode while I try to figure out how to solve this issue. This issue gets tracked in https://github.com/SchmarrnDevs/Lighty/issues/118.

Regarding Lighty for Minecraft 26.1.2: Please have some patience still. Not only was the release badly timed with Easter, but then Create Aeronautics launched, which may or may not have eaten some of my free time :)

Thanks for your understanding, have fun!

Hello everyone!

This release brings Lighty to Minecraft 1.21.11.

This release is only PARTLY WORKING with IRIS. Boring cross mode is functional, but if you rely on Carpet/Number mode and are using shaders, those two modes won't show. Please disable shaders or use boring cross mode while I try to figure out how to solve this issue. This issue gets tracked in #118.

Thank you for your understanding, and have fun!

Hello everyone!

This release brings Lighty to Minecraft 1.21.11.

This release is only PARTLY WORKING with IRIS. Boring cross mode is functional, but if you rely on Carpet/Number mode and are using shaders, those two modes won't show. Please disable shaders or use boring cross mode while I try to figure out how to solve this issue. This issue gets tracked in #118.

Thank you for your understanding, and have fun!