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Vanilla RTX v1.21.10 (Release) - Updated / v1.21.11, March 6th
🕑 Added 2024-03-01 19:26:11 +0000 UTCGreetings all! A new Vanilla RTX update has arrived.
In this update support for the new Vault block in Minecraft Preview has been added, numerous items have been improved and brought up-to-standard, new language localization, alongside more experimental changes.
Much like the v1.20.5 Autumn's End update, this is primarily a big quality update where lots of items get their much-needed touch up. See the changelogs below to discover all about this update.
Vanilla RTX & Vanilla RTX Normals v1.21.10 / Release Notes:
• Added support for Vault block of the Trial Chambers.
- To accommodate for consistency between Trial spawners and Vault block, inactive states now emit a small amount of light.
• Translated package description in all (29) languages
- Improved pack menu texts.
Note: translations might not yet be perfect, if you are a native speaker of a language other than English and find the translation for your language to sound problematic, let me know!
• Revamped Lectern, now fully consistent with other wood blocks, books are now consistent with bookshelf, golden parts now match gold. Improved heightmaps with better edges, revamped Normals.
• Updated bookshelf heightmap, height differences of books is now based on average pixel brightness of each book for a more natural look, added missing details
• Updated Barrel - Revamped normal maps, improved heightmaps - Updated wooden parts material to be consistent with other wooden blocks
• Revamped composter, now consistent with podzol and other wooden blocks, reworked heightmaps and normal maps.
• Updated podzol - Revamped heightmaps, improved normal maps with better tiling - New redefined materials.
• Revamped Lodestone, all new normal maps, improved heightmaps and new materials that better matches smooth stone.
• Updated Smooth Stone Slab normal maps to match Smooth Stone
• Improved cobblestone and mossy cobblestone normal maps, smoother curvature.
• Updated old stonecutter top and side normal maps
• Revamped new stonecutter
- New saw material animation that follows the saw texture and better matches other iron materials.
- Freshly designed normal maps and improved heightmaps.
- Updated materials, iron, wooden and stone parts are now fully consistent with other blocks of same type.
• Updated all hardened clay materials, now much more rough with less contrasting roughness for a less distracting and more subtle look.
• Revamped Brewing stand
- New materials, iron parts are now consistent with other iron of the same class, rod emissivity has been tweaked with more detail, new normals, improved heightmaps.
• Snowy grass side normal map now more seamlessly connects with snow block above it, also improved its heightmap to fully match snow heightmap.
• Revamped Lava, now with proper animations!
Previously, emissivity was based on average of all stages of lava to make up for lack of animated MER support. Now that once again animated MERs are functional in Minecraft (after years!) The new emissivity now follows lava's texture animation, resulting in a much more lava-like appearance where yellow parts glow hotter. New lava will appear overall more vibrant and more faithful to vanilla Minecraft.
Going forward more animated blocks will be updated with proper material animations.
- Added a subtle normal map animation to Lava in Vanilla RTX Normals.
• Added more details to Netherrack mortar MER
• Reworked crimson and warped Nylium - New materials, crimson nylium top is now consistent with netherrack - Reworked heightmaps, new subtle normal maps with better tiling
• Revamped all nether foliage (wines, roots and sprouts) - Now fully consistent with Crimson and warped nyliums, improved heightmaps and normal maps
Experimental Updates:
This update comes with more experimental changes as well! You can enable them through Vanilla RTX or (Vanilla RTX Normals') settings.
(Not to confuse this with experimentals option in world settings, enabling this doesn't require you to toggle anything else! It just activates a portion of Vanilla RTX that is deactivated by default).
• Improved sun azimuth modifier in experimentals:
- Fixed the bug where sun texture and directional sun light were appearing to come from opposite directions during sunrise and sunset, improved sun path with smoother and more natural transitions.
- The moon now rises and sets from the opposite azimuth angle compared to the the sun.
- The new sun azimuth modifier is less extreme and thus should appear more natural/vanilla.
Notes: You should no longer feel like you're close to north pole! Some of you said the sun azimuth modifications introduced in v1.20.5 were too extreme, new one should appear more vanilla. Also no more sudden direction changes during sunrise and sunset! As promised in v1.20.5's post.
• Fixed spyglass overlay texture being too zoomed-in and dysfunctional with ray tracing.
- New converted texture for ray tracing mode.
Notes: While this fix is a perfect recreation of Vanilla Minecraft's spyglass, it comes with one drawback, spyglass overlay texture now appears too zoomed-out without ray tracing, so take it that this fix is only meant for ray tracing graphics mode since disabling ray tracing will break spyglass overlay texture.
• Added an incomplete workaround fix for black areas on The Breeze, Wind charge and The Warden entities.
Notes: These fixes 2 in particular are not yet complete, however for the time being they are an improvement over the issues that come with the game. I'll be trying to address more of game's issues and improve fixes through various workarounds with the upcoming updates. Keep an eye out in the experimentals section of changelogs.
Notes:
For this update's ending notes, I want to talk a little about game's bugs, fixing them and where Vanilla RTX is headed.
First of all, it is worth noting this update in particular was not meant to be focused on fixing bugs, but I ended up including a glimpse of the future.
Going forward, I'll be actively trying to address most if not all of the known issues, slowly with each update.
Crafting fixes that fully preserve the way things are in vanilla Minecraft is rather time consuming.
These workarounds are sometimes not perfect, and they may interfere with other resources, add-ons or cause unexpected issues, for this reason they will likely never be implemented into the default Vanilla RTX experience.
In other words, while I do try to address them, they are always bound to remain in the Experimentals option within the pack.
It is worth noting, fixing game's bugs has always been outside the scope of Vanilla RTX's objectives and goals. Vanilla RTX has always been about preserving vanilla Minecraft and adding on top of it, not altering it!
Which was the reason I created "Minecraft RTX Fix Pack" -- a separate pack that addressed some other issues.
It is only within the recent past that I've started looking into Minecraft's bugs for two main reasons, one being introduction of Experimentals option in Vanilla RTX 1.20.5, which became the doorway to starting to alter vanilla Minecraft without changing Vanilla RTX, which was going to be required to work around Minecraft's issues.
Think of the Experimental option as a playground! where I can allow myself to include files that alter game in ways that the default Vanilla RTX cannot, it may contain all of bug fixes or tweaks to vanilla Minecraft for the foreseeable future.
And second reason being quality of Vanilla RTX. Making sure of quality and consistency of everything has been number one priority and all I had to focus on for a long time, so it only in the recent times that I can afford the opportunity to slowly branch out and experiment with different things.
Ultimately take it all as good news, while there is still quite a lot to be done to perfect out everything (in a literal sense), I will now be actively working on fixes for the game in each update, a necessary step towards slowly (& truly) creating the ideal baseline Minecraft RTX experience.
See you all in the next post. Hopefully a bit sooner than usual. (I'm on a roll!)
---------- March 6th Edit:
A minor update for the latest Minecraft Preview (v1.20.80.20) is now available.
v1.21.11 Changelogs:
• Added full support for the new vault block. (vault block visuals have been updated)
- Improved vault block emissivity
• Fixed vault block file names in latest Minecraft Preview
• Improved trial spawner heightmaps and emissivity.
• Updated Vanilla RTX and Vanilla RTX Normals package icons to 1.21.
Comments
CubeIR
Vanilla RTX Normals is almost identical to Vanilla RTX in every way, except it uses 16x Normal maps, which makes a fundamental difference in how things look and feel. You can find a detailed explanation of their differences here: https://discord.com/channels/721377277480402985/1045014388035309578/1045014388035309578 and alternatively in the FAQ section at Vanilla RTX's mcpedl post.
Brett Ford
Gotcha, thanks. I look forward to Minecraft fixing the issues by 2028 lol. One more thing, I am rather new at this modding- what is the difference between the RTX pack and the RTX Normal pack? about to install vanilla RTX for the first time, I've heard good things about your work so far.
CubeIR
Hey, I'd say neither. Vast majority (if not all) of the visual glitches people encounter in Minecraft RTX are base game's issues.
Brett Ford
Amazing stuff! One question I have- is the glowing white chains a vanilla rtx issue or a better rtx issue?
Sebastian Dimmock
Amazing work, thank you for continuing to keep this updated!
