Top Down View

[ 2.0.0 ] - 2026-10-08

Features

• Added a new culling mode that removes roofs, tree canopies and overhangs above walkable ground, together with the foreground wall between the camera and the player (selectable via Culling Mode: Old / New).
• Added connected wall culling.
• Added indoor ceiling culling with doorway transition stability.
• Completely rebuilt the fade system from scratch.
• Added occlusion silhouette rendering for players and entities obscured behind walls.
• Added floating dropped item labels.
• Added translucent fluid rendering for culled areas.
• Added dynamic culling protection for portals and portal frames.
• Added proximity block translucency (with a toggle to make translucent blocks hittable).
• Added continuous click-to-move (click-and-hold to steer movement).
• Added step assist for small elevation changes, with an option to disable it indoors.
• Added gradual acceleration mode for auto-rotation.
• Added an option to restrict camera-side wall clipping to a wedge shape.
• Added an option to cull solid roofs outdoors.
• Added a performance monitor overlay (FPS and per-phase timings).
• Added data-driven interaction overrides (config/topdown_view/interactions.json) with built-in Lootr support.

Compatibility

• Added Sound Physics Remastered compatibility.
• Updated MoBends compatibility.
• Added Fast Paintings compatibility.
• Added experimental Distant Horizons compatibility.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed paintings and item frames disappearing while the wall behind them is visible.
• Fixed directional swimming controls while underwater.
• Fixed the glowing effect not being cleared when leaving the top-down view.
• Fixed particles not being generated when the camera is far from the player.
• Fixed proximity translucency affecting unculled blocks.
• Fixed dimension switching (Nether / End) causing massive chunk rebuild spikes or temporary freezing.
• Fixed interaction prompt frame scaling with camera zoom.
• Fixed mining with an axe being recognized as an attack.
• Fixed cursor aim direction, bow gravity compensation, and lock-on target offset.
• Fixed items dropped on culled blocks remaining visible in mid-air.

Performance

• Improved overall culling performance.
• Moved room and spatial detection to a background thread to prevent blocking the render thread.
• Optimized boundary evaluation and state caching to eliminate per-frame allocations.