Modern UI

Modern UI 3.11.0.3

NeoForge Extension 1.20.6

• Change default typeface/font loading behavior
• Add option to replace vanilla blur effect with Modern UI for optimization
• Allow setting blur radius to 0 to disable blur
• Add MinecraftSurfaceView to handle raw rendering calls
• Ensure that all (native/GPU) resources are closed when the game exits
• Slightly improve the Center UI
• Fix a random crash when opening/closing UI frequently
• Rework tooltip rendering
  • Add white noise to shadow
  • Add dithering to gradient colors
  • Use L1 norm instead of L2 norm for coverage antialiasing
  • Change shadow approximation method
  • Change default border radius and shadow alpha
  • Add new conditions for adding the extra space below tooltip title line
  • If the first three lines of the tooltip have different styles, we consider the first line as the title
  • Reduce the saturation of default tooltip colors
• Allow using arrow keys to manually scroll the tooltip
• Add small epsilon to text Z value for tooltip rendering to work around FP errors on some GPUs
• Optimize blur effect
  • Use texelFetch instead of texture
  • Remove the additional blit pass and render target because we work around a Minecraft bug
  • Try to cache the shader program and temporary render target for blurring, and handle errors
  • Apply blur effect to the screen background instead of the world, just like Minecraft 1.21
• Migrate to new rendering pipeline

Forge Extension 1.20.6

• Equivalent to NeoForge version

Fabric Extension 1.20.6

• Functionally equivalent to NeoForge version

Modern Text Engine 1.20.6

• Add compatibility for bitmap fonts with custom text shader
• Enable linear metrics and disable font hinting by default
• Add config to change the minimum pixel density for SDF text
• Fix some possible bugs on text rendering
• Optimize text rendering
  • Add texture cleanup to FontResourceManager
  • Simplify text layout rendering code
  • Use Math.round for aligning pixels
  • Fix glyph info for FontSet compatibility
• Rework and optimize bitmap font rendering
  • Try to stitch bitmap font into atlas
  • Try to discard bitmap fonts if they have negative metrics, transparent pixels, or huge metrics
  • Saturate glyph metrics for bitmap font
  • Fix hashCode and equals for correct de-duplication
• Adjust lod bias for normal text shader
• Adjust bitmap font to match vanilla behavior
  • Adjust glyph advance calculation
• Adjust Unicode font loading behavior
  • Any reference to vanilla Unicode font and UNIHEX font will redirect to current ModernUI default typeface list instead of system fonts, except for Minecraft default font set
• Fix text layout bug when finding style transitions
• Allow caching the missing glyph to atlas
• Adopt full text rendering technology from core framework
• Fix line breaker that may output no lines and keep consistency with vanilla behavior
  • This fix a bug with IBE Editor
• Fix text strike cache invalidation for FontSet compatibility
  • This fix a bug with Create
• Add text layout dump in advanced options
• Add a command for debugging line breaker
• Add methods for debugging text engine
• Work around AMD driver bug before GCN 1
• Change the initial size of A8 font atlas to 2048x2048
• Fix crash when compacting font atlas

Core Framework

• Enable linear text by default, increase layout cache limit
• Delete render thread executor
• Delete old text rendering code
• Add GradientDrawable that draw shapes with gradient colors
• Update/fix ShapeDrawable with latest rendering pipeline
• Add set/get ColorFilter to Drawable and ImageView Add ImageView.setImageTintBlendMode
• Rework ImageDrawable.setSrcRect() method
• Update ImageDrawable with antialias, dither, filter, and tile modes
• Add setter/getter to change blend mode for edge effect
• Change default blend mode for EdgeEffect from SRC_OVER to SRC_ATOP
• Fix Matrix.mapRect()
• Fix EdgeEffect centerX
• Improve text rendering
• Add AngularGradient API and implementation
• Add RadialGradient API and implementation
• Add LinearGradient API and implementation
• Add GradientShader API and implementation
• Add new draw methods to Canvas class
• Add BlendModeColorFilter and make it work finally, default blend mode for ImageDrawable is SRC_IN
• Add ColorFilter class that can be installed on Paint
• Refactor Image class and fix Image.close() issue
• Refactor Paint class
• Add ImageShader class
• Add Shader class that can be installed on Paint
• Add TextView.setTextSize() that specifies a unit, default is sp
• Full migration to the new rendering pipeline, Arc3D Granite Renderer; delete old GLSurfaceCanvas
• Avoid re-layout on window minimized, since framebuffer is destroyed and size is 0
• Deprecate Canvas.saveLayer() for future layer compositor and render tree

Core Framework - Kotlin Extension

• No changes

Markdown Extension

• No changes

Arc3D Graphics Engine

• Remove old usage of Image.getSurfaceFlags
• Add Image.getUniqueID() and static methods to create raster images
• Add utility NoDrawCanvas NWayCanvas and PaintFilterCanvas
• Fix Matrix.mapRect() is not correct
• Fix compiler error
• Optimize text ops if subRunToDevice is translation-only and pipeline does not require local coords trivially
• Optimize matrix computation for text ops
• Replace Matrix4 in rendering code with Matrix
• Make Matrix4() construct an identity matrix, and Matrix4.identity() return a read-only identity matrix
• Fix TextBlobBuilder offsets not reset after build
• Add RoundRect flatten methods
• Improve NoPixelsDevice clip tracking, remove ConservativeClip
• Add DrawAtlas.purge() to free unused pages
• Add implementation for gradients in other interpolation color spaces and for all hue interpolation methods
• Allow DrawAtlas to perform an immediate compact
• Rename some classes and methods
• Change the default uniform buffer block size to 32KB
• Fix color array copy in Vertices::makeCopy
• Fix persistent mapping check in GLBuffer
• Temporarily enable RGB texture in OpenGL
• Try to share vertex array objects in OpenGL backend
• Expose resource cleanup API, also cleanup framebuffer cache and strike cache
• Review ResourceCache, fix some legacy issues
• Add support for alpha-only images, add missing Shaders shader implementation
• Purge framebuffers immediately after one attachment was destroyed
• Complete the compatibility with OpenGL 3.3 and OpenGL ES 3.0
• Improve texture and renderbuffer creation
• Deprecate old Device methods
• Fix OpenGL 3.3 and GLSL 330 compatibility
• Finalize BoundsManager, add samples
• Add plus_clamped, minus, and minus_clamped blend info
• Remove 01 coverage in non-aa case
• Add blend equation in GL backend
• Mark old code as deprecated
• Implement basic functionality for final blender, enable dual source blending
• Fully implement BakedTextBlob and TextBlobCache for text rendering
• Fix blend shader doesn't compile
• Add TextBlob as an immutable container for glyph rendering
• Rework FramebufferDesc, add FramebufferCache to manage framebuffers
• Basically implement texture copy task, implement Surface.onNewImageSnapshot()
• Add factory method to create Surface
• Implement Device management
• Invalidate atlases if RC.snap() failed
• Fix several threading issues for OpenGL backend
• Handle ColorFilter properly
• Add BlendModeShader
• Fix color space transformation on paint's solid color
• Add primitive color blending and color space transform
• Add blending with shader and paint's alpha
• Fix color space transformation on BlendModeColorFilter
• Add implementation of BlendModeShader and BlendModeColorFilter
• Remove Geometry interface
• Add Vertices class and Vertices step to drawVertices
• Add shader implementation for 42 blend modes
• Fix arg name for uniforms that start with no mangle prefix
• Add StaticBufferManager and Buffer-to-Buffer copy task
• Fix ImageUploadTask bug
• Implement remaining important Canvas methods
• Add and implement new Canvas methods in Device
• Fix depth is perspective-correct; the depth should be preserved, then multiply it by w.
• Fix bugs on arc shader with square end
• Finish methods to create and draw GlyphRuns
• Add method to set Matrix elements
• Fix Matrix4.hashCode() for negative zero
• Add Geometry.getBounds() to compute bounds
• Improve ClipStack to compute several bounds
• Fix stroke inflation radius computation for inner and outer stroke
• Optimize draw when it does not depend on dst
• Fix several issues on Device
• Implement the creation of AtlasSubRuns
• Add method to compute res scales if matrix has perspective
• Fix AnalyticSimpleBoxStep instance data type
• Add method to draw pie and chord, optimize shaders
• Add rendering with three cap types of stroke arcs initially
• Implement Atlas text op at low level, improve solid color fast path, trying to handle primitive color
• Fix ScalerContext_JDK does not return a reliable glyph bounds
• Fix DrawAtlas assertion and GlyphAtlasManager row stride
• Fix Strike and ScalerContext bugs, remove stroke cap in StrikeDesc
• Improve finite check and non-invertible matrix
• Add RendererProvider to manage GeometryRenderers
• Finish implementation of atlas management for draw ops and glyph atlas
• Calculate the Path byte size when generating Glyph in Strike
• Implement Strike, StrikeCache, and ScalerContext basically
• Add Paint.setPathEffect(), add missing javadoc in Font
• Add Path.transform(), add PathIterator.getFillRule()
• Add GPU dithering implementation (no texture lookup)
• Fix GLCaps.FormatInfo for RGB565
• Update Paint and related classes
• Make Blender and ColorFilter strictly ref-counted
• Add Shader.isConstant()
• Fix Canvas.drawCircle()
• Add Paint.setColor4f()
• Fix Paint.setStrokeWidth() and Paint.setStrokeMiter() for NaN values
• Remove Paint's SmoothWidth, MaskFilter and ImageFilter
• Add PathEffect skeleton class
• Fix several hashCode implementation for negative zeros
• Update Paint.nothingToDraw() for more blend modes
• Add more methods to RoundRect
• Update Surface, Canvas, and related classes
• Add Stroke, PathIterable, update PathStroker
• Optimize shaders
• Use short-circuit for transfer function
• Use texelFetch for cubic shader, remove invImageSize uniform
• Add perspective correction for local matrix shader
• Extract color space transform from image shaders
• Ensure subset sampling does not use mipmaps
• Implement bicubic and strict subset sampling
• Change AnalyticSimpleBoxStep to use L1 norm
• Fix bug on GLImageDesc.equals()
• Fix bug on uniform block layout
• Change Paint constants and SamplingOptions, adding classes for text rendering
• Done depth stencil work, fix several bugs
• Add flipY and unorm clamp for PixelUtils
• Implement LinearGradient, RadialGradient, AngularGradient
• Fix bugs on ImageShader.makeSubset()
• Fix bugs on premul & unpremul in some classes
• Improve ColorSpace transform, add PixelUtils.convertPixels()
• Add new ColorSpace transform shader
• Fix GLSampler TEXTURE_WRAP_R is not set, add validation for SamplerDesc
• Fix Matrix4.invert, add Matrix.toMatrix4, fix UniformDataGatherer for mat3
• Make Paint, PaintParams, and Draw classes closeable
• Fix TextureTracker; rename gradient shaders
• Optimize box shader
• Accumulated updates on fragment effects and shading pipeline
• Implement simple pixel upload using image-to-image copy
• Add new Shader and ColorFilter classes
• Rename PixelMap to Pixmap, PixelRef to Pixels
• Switch slow JNI to PixelUtils.copyImage() for array to off-heap copy
• Remove the offset parameter of Buffer.unmap()
• Finish AnalyticSimpleBoxStep
• Allow implicit conversion between numerics
• Add DepthStencilSettings and BoundsManager, limit the number of geometry steps
• Optimize vertex writer and uniform writer, optimize uniform data deduplication
• Basically complete the Granite Renderer
• Add geometry projection, solid color simplification
• Finish RenderPassTask execution Fix scissor origin, initial scissor setup
• Complete DrawPass's texture sampler binding
• Add TextureDataGatherer, texture sampler binding and tracker
• Add UniformDataGatherer and UniformDataCache
• Fix Matrix4.store()
• Add framebuffer creation and some tests
• Some work on new PipelineBuilder
• Update Buffer, GLBuffer, persistent mapping and so on
• Accumulative updates for new renderer
• Add method for updating clip draws
• Update ClipStack
• Improve vertex specification and buffer binding
• Rename the project from 'Arc 3D' to 'Arc3D'
• Commit all accumulative updates
• Change BlendMode.apply() to static methods
• Accumulative updates for the new pipeline
• Attempt to refactor pipeline
• Add more classes for new pipeline
• Add frexp & ldexp impl
• Some attempts on pipeline
• Refactor GPU Image, RenderTarget, SurfaceProxy classes; remove Texture
• Add Image and Framebuffer creation, add reusable framebuffers
• Refactor GpuResource class hierarchy
• Support GL_CONTEXT_LOST
• Tons of work on Engine and OpenGL backend, not listed
• Add pre-defined extensions to compile options
• A lot of work on abstraction between GL3 and GLES3
• Initially add GLInterface for both OpenGL & OpenGL ES support
• Add std140/std430 layout qualifiers, add include directive parsing
• Abandon usage of GLSL ARB extensions that core in later versions
• Fix GLCaps crash for some capabilities
• Fix some bugs in preprocessing
• Other improvements
• Add new preprocessing methods, allow sub-range source
• Add StringLiteral grammar, fix Whitespace grammar
• Add FatalError to terminate compiler
• Add identifier name length check (1024 at most)
• Add benchmark between Arc3D and shaderc (glslang)
• Update Lexer
• Add directive grammar
• Add 'using' grammar for type aliases
• Add newline token, fix block comment grammar