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Basic mesh shader support
Describe the request
Since this mod is incompatible with anything sensible, i would ask to implement basic mesh shader support as terrain rasterizer. It will benefit modern AMD cards in the first place, since they doesn't have mesh shaders in their OpenGL implementation and allow them to render terrain with high render distances easily.
Compatibility has greatly improved over the last few updates, and VulkanMod should word with most mods on Modrinth. Which mods are still causing issues and are important to you?
Mesh shaders are not easy to implement and only limit the hardware support to newer and dedicated graphics cards. There are many other possible optimizations that are far easier to implement and would work on all devices, hence there is little reason to implement it in the first place. I don't get why so many people are obsessed with mesh shaders recently.
I don't get why so many people are obsessed with mesh shaders
That's because mesh shaders (for supported hardware) and the rasterized occlusion culling (all hardware but 2x slower) allows you to enjoy an insane render distance almost without performance loss.
I don't get why so many people are obsessed with mesh shaders
That's because mesh shaders (for supported hardware) and the rasterized occlusion culling (all hardware but 2x slower) allows you to enjoy an insane render distance almost without performance loss.
But they take the "incompatible with anything sensible" statement and make it significantly LESS compatible. You'd be breaking support for anything before Turing and RDNA2
Mesh shaders could be optional, just like with Nvidium.
Nvidium doesn't make them optional. It disables itself when mesh shaders aren't supported (i.e on anything that's not Turing or newer, or anything AMD/Intel, since neither of those support OpenGL mesh shaders)
It disables itself when mesh shaders aren't supported
You just described how "optional" works.
It disables itself when mesh shaders aren't supported
You just described how "optional" works.
If you install the mod on a system that doesn't support the extension the mod doesn't do anything, therefore it's not optional because it does LITERALLY NOTHING
If you install the mod on a system that doesn't support the extension the mod doesn't do anything, therefore it's not optional because it does LITERALLY NOTHING
"optional" in this context means "has no hard dependency". So if your GPU doesn't support a technology, game still works but with a different renderer.
Creating such a complicated feature that requires a very long development time and making it optional (because most users can't use it), doesn't make any sense.