General Questions - StartsMercury/simply-no-shading GitHub Wiki

Questions

This page hosts a variety of questions you might need answers about the mod. Feel free to create an issue for concerns with any part of the wiki.

Questions Around Performance

Simply No Shading aims to mimic the reference behavior of disabling shading and it may do it in whatever ways necessary, though with performance in mind. Despite this, Simply No Shading is not necessarily a performance mod.

Supported Minecraft Versions

Currently, these are the target versions to support in the order of priority:

  1. Latest Minor Version (e.g. 1.20.1)
  2. Latest Snapshot/Pre-Release/Release Candidate (e.g. 1.20.1-rc1)
  3. Older Minor Versions of the Latest Major Version (e.g. 1.20.[1])
  4. Latest Minor Version of Older Major Versions (e.g. 1.19.4, 1.18.2)

It is currently uncertain if versions older than what Fabric supports will be supported (through Legacy Fabric). Challenges like older internal code to mess with or dependencies may delay or hinder support (e.g. my inability to make translatable texts to work on 1.17.[1]).

Other Mod Loaders

Maintaining potentially different code or messing with a different build plugin may take time. Compatibility for ported mods (e.g. Sodium ports to Forge like Rubidium) may factor also take time. It isn't impossible, though it isn't a huge priority.

For Quilt, as long as it can support Fabric mods with no change, then it's all good.

More Mod Support

Reported incompatibilities with other mods that will be looked at (unless it's a conflict with OptiFine then that can't be helped). Support is not guaranteed especially for closed-source mods.