🌊 Water Reflections Loaded at Inaccurate Distances.
Hello!
I'll try to keep it short.
Chunks loaded using Distant Horizon display reflections of nearby objects even though the chunks are much further away, If I find a fix I will delete this post myself.
Things don't seem so bad shown on the image but once you start moving and jumping it starts to really become evident!
I really do appreciate anyone willing to lend a helping hand, cheers!
I'm using fabric, I have no error message or an idea of where I can get the logs detailing which functions distant horizon is executing.
Complementary Shaders - Reimagined 5.2.2
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The Following is a list of mods I've enabled but might be irrelevant:
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1.3.8
CreativeCore by CreativeMD
v2.12.23
ImmediatelyFast by RaphiMC
1.3.2
Searchables by JaredIII08
1.0.3
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1.7.2
Chat Heads by dzwdz
0.13.7
AmbientSounds 6 by CreativeMD
v6.1.3
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3.8
AppleSkin by squeek502
2.5.1
Sodium by JellySquid
0.5.11
Default Options by BlayTheNinth
18.0.1
Controlling by JaredIII08
12.0.2
Chunky by pop4959
1.3.146
Balm by BlayTheNinth
7.3.9
Easy Magic by Fuzs
8.0.1
More Chat History by JackFred2
1.3.0
Easy Anvils by Fuzs
8.0.2
Shoulder Surfing Reloaded by _ForgeUser21552638
4.6.2
Fabric API by modmuss50
0.92.2
Not Enough Animations by tr7zw
1.8.1
Just Enough Items by mezz
15.20.0.105
Cristel Lib by Cristelknight
1.1.5
Structure Essentials by someaddon
3.4
Super Martijn642's Config Lib
1.1.8a
Indium by comp500
1.0.34
Modern Fix by embeddedt
5.19.5
Bookshelf by DarkhaxDev
20.2.13
Puzzles Lib by Fuzs
8.1.25
Entity Model Features by tarben_0
2.2.6
Enchantment Descriptions by DarkhaxDev
17.1.19
LambDynamicLights by LambdAurora
2.3.2
Reese's Sodium Options by FlashyReese
1.7.2
Yeetus Experimentus by Sunekaer
2.3.1
Sodium Extra by FlashyReese
0.5.4
Cloth Config API by shedaniel
11.1.136
Forge Config API Port by Fuzs
8.0.1
Mod Menu by Prospector
7.2.2
Iris Shaders by coderbot
1.7.5
Blur+ by Motschen
3.1.0
No Resource Pack Warnings by SpaceWalkerRS
1.3.0
Durability Tooltip by SuperMartijn642
1.1.5
Cupboard by someaddon
2.7
Distant Horizons: A Level Of Detail mod by James_Seibel
2.2.1
Better Ping Display by Quintinity
1.1.1
Entity Culling by tr7zw
1.7.1
Clumps by JaredIII08
12.0.0.4
Collective by Serium
7.87
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1.15
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1.0.2-rc1
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1.2.2
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6.2.8
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v8.0.0That’s just how the reflections are handled by the shader
..😅 I'd doubt so I believe there's some sort of an issue in communication between Distant Horizons and the shader pack.. I disabled transparency in distant horizons which removed the reflections in distance but made the water look really blue in comparison to normal render distance.
Distant Horizons does not add reflections
Shaders add reflections
If you don’t think this is a shader issue it can be an Iris one
But it is common for shaders to do reflections in this way, don’t ask me why
Cause its performant
here's my guess (and solution!):
In complementary shaders performance settings, there are 3 modes for reflections. Off, flipped image, and raymarching. Flipped image mode creates these issues. You should change the reflection type to raymarching (for slightly decreased performance) or just disable it entirely if you want to fix the issue.
Well, you'd think so but this issue is happening ONLY in chunks loaded by distant horizons and none other.
I'll give it a shot and see what goes.
Because shader devs decided that LODs don't need better reflections
Appologies for such a late response, I assume you're talking about this? In which case hey're set to highest already.
try adjusting water reflections quality
I have disabling it would just outright disable reflections, any form of water reflections would cause the thing to start happening again, and the only thing which would partially have a significant change would be setting transparency to off (option shown in this image) which is a setting given by distant horizons
Here are some photos which might help better demonstrate the issue.
then i guess that shader doesnt have a higher quality reflection method
I'm just dumbfounded that it only happens to chunks loaded using distant horizons, anything within the shader's/vanilla rendering distance doesn't share this issue.
Complementary shaders use only the flipped reflections for LODs
Whichever method it's using, it's malfunctioning in combination with DH, it can be seen that the chunks before don't share similar issues.
It is not malfunctioning, that is just how that method works
This is just how it works
It's a choice that the shader made
no, the shader is using a certain method for reflections on dh chunks called screenspace reflections i think so thats why it looks like that
DH chunks get flipped reflections, everything else gets screenspace reflections.
I'm searching for a way to disable that or fix the issue, rn I use render distance 32 with dh, but when using normal Minecraft for render distance 32 it doesn't happen.
I'm not really educated when it comes to making Minecraft shaders so I wouldn't know how to fix this myself without any instructions.
I need dh for performance reasons, I can't just disable transparency in dh options because that makes the water discolored
you can try to ask in the complementary discord server but i doubt this will be as easy as flipping a switch
You can get help related to shader code on ShaderLabs DC
Just adding on to this convo - I am also having the issue with DH and transparency being enabled. Fixable by disabling transparency but then the water LODs mismatch the shaderpack and it's pretty jarring.
if i get far away enough, it resolves it.
from what I understand this is a sodium issue. I am on latest DH for 1.20.1 - does anyone have a better experience downgrading versions?
..this is a completely different issue from the one being talked about in this thread-