Distant Horizons

Additions:

• Add MC 1.20.1 support - Leetom
• Add Transparent rendering Leonardo
• Add SSAO - notalpha, Null
• Add a noise texture to the LODs - coolGi
• Replace the color based data system with an ID based system #90 - Leetom
• Add an API #208 - James
• Add a self updater - coolGi
• Add white-only debug rendering option - coolGi
• Add support for Sodium 0.5.1 - coolGi
• Add LOD Bias for vanilla rendering - coolGi
• Add ability to limit thread run times - James
• Add additional F3 menu info - Leetom, James
• Add an experimental seamless overdraw option - James
• Add config presets #265 - James

Changes:

• Change installer GUI design - coolGi
• Overhaul overdraw system - James
• reorganize config UI - James

Backend Changes:

• Complete backend rewrite - Leetom, James
• new gradle build script - coolGi, Ran
• new config handling - coolGi
• Replace grid rendering system with a quad tree - Leetom, James
• backend config refactor and restructure - coolGi
• Improve time traveling between dimensions/levels - James
• Replace XZ compression with LZ4 - James
• Use our own lighting engine for the world generator #254 - James
• Improve world curvature - stduhpf
• Change default multiplayer folder save mode to "name only" - James
• Add the prefix "DH-" to all Distant Horizons threads - James
• Moved from a loose file system to a Sqlite database - James
• Move to a FrameBuffer based system instead of rendering directly to MC's FrameBuffer - Steveplays, James

Removals:

• Deprecated several minor MC versions
• Removed biome blending
• Removed world gen options: Biome, Biome_Height, and Full
• Directional Culling
• All overdraw options except: "always"
• All world gen modes except: "near first"

Bug Fixes:

• Fix semantic version number - James
• Fixed BCLib fog #390 - coolGi
• Fixed special character world name crash #446 - coolGi
• Fix mob spawner world gen fail message #199 - Leetom
• Fix underdraw holes #69, #190 - James
• Fix flying machine ghosts #145
• Fix Phosphor (and all other lighting engine) incompatibilities #308 - James
• Fix nether roof rendering incorrectly #272
• Fix Hypixel not generating LODs #276
• Fix only rendering half LODs at low render distances #280 - Leetom
• Fix LodBuilder index out of bounds #286 - Leetom