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Longview is a mod that fixes glitches such as Z-fighting and jaggies on far distances.<\/p>\n
This is accomplished through two techniques:
\n1) By changing the Z coordinate limits from [-1,1] to [0,1] using the `GL_ARB_CLIP_CONTROL` extension (officially part of OpenGL 4.5)
\n2) By applying the reversed Z technique, where the far plane and the near plane are swapped in the renderer.<\/p>\n
This ensures that the depth buffer will be evenly distributed no matter the distance, fixing all sorts of glitches that happens from a distance!<\/p>\n
## Compatibility<\/p>\n
This mod requires a device supporting either the `GL_ARB_CLIP_CONTROL` extension or OpenGL 4.5 in order to apply Technique 1.<\/p>\n
On devices that don’t support either, like ones running macOS, Technique 2 will still be applied, although since the Z coordinate limits will remain as [-1,1], flipping them will do nothing at all considering said limit is effectively symmetric.<\/p>\n
As of Longview 1.1.0, this mod is semi-compatible with Iris Shaders and it will disable itself if a shader pack is active. Proper compatibility will be worked on in the future.<\/p>\n
This mod is fully compatible with custom graphics backends and will implement Technique 2 by default, although said custom backends are required to implement Technique 1 themselves.<\/p>\n
## Acknowledgements<\/p>\n
– This Godot Engine blog post for introducing me to the reverse Z technique.
\n– Depth Precision Visualized: an excellent article covering the topic of depth precision as well as the reverse Z technique.
\n– The many people who have independently discovered and popularized this technique, including goddamn Quake developers.
\n– qendolin for putting together the farz-poc proof-of-concept and for starting discussions involving Mojang developers.
\n– IMS for he’s a jolly good fellow, which nobody can deny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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