Well, it seems he is half way with the update. Once he updates the 1.8 one, the 1.9 will only take a very small bit as it is a small trivial update. The reason 1.8 is taking so long is because of the new lighting engine, terrain generation, etc.
Honestly I hope he adds an option to revert the new lighting system. It doesn't look bad, but multiple light sources flickering is really destroying my processor power.
No, that really has nothing to do with it. The issues were technical and complicated, and I've been communicating with the creator of Optifine for a while about this. I've got my half of the fixes in, now we're waiting on Optifine.
See, I knew I'd be way off :3 Just felt like trying anyways. I'm glad to see the mod community works so well together for MC, it makes being a miner a lot better
Don't pay me too much mind, but looking at Optifine features, I believe your compatibility issue lies not in the fact that it modifies rendering but in that it directly modifies "redstone animation", and possibly by relation anything that is referred to as redstone. I don't know, I'm not a coder but I thought it might be worth looking into for future compatibility. It's always hard to choose between good mods and good performance...
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Honestly I hope he adds an option to revert the new lighting system. It doesn't look bad, but multiple light sources flickering is really destroying my processor power.
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See, I knew I'd be way off :3 Just felt like trying anyways. I'm glad to see the mod community works so well together for MC, it makes being a miner a lot better
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