"Fast" clouds not working
Abalieno opened this issue ยท 3 comments
Version information
sodium-fabric-mc1.19.3-0.4.8+build.22
Expected Behavior
Clouds should have three settings: off, fancy and fast.
Actual Behavior
With the last couple of versions clouds can be turned off, or set at their default, but the "flat" option that was always available is not present and clouds are drawn in their "fancy" way even when the option is set at "fast".
Reproduction Steps
Set graphic settings to "fast"
Java version
Java 17
CPU
10900kf
GPU
gtx 1080
Additional information
No response
This is not a bug. Sodium has rewritten cloud rendering, making it have almost no performance impact. There was no use in implementing 'fast' clouds, so the 3D clouds are the only option. It's either turned on or off.
I personally dislike 3d clouds for how they are rendered and constant pixel crawling, not for performance reasons.
But okay.
@Abalieno It's actually possible to have Fast clouds, by disabling Sodium's cloud renderer and reverting to the vanilla one. This requires delving into some config files:
In .minecraft/config/sodium-mixins.properties
add the line:
mixin.features.clouds=false
In .minecraft/options.txt
find the lines called renderClouds
and update it to:
renderClouds:"fast"