Changelog

[0.2.3b] — 2026-06-19

Added

• Rectangle fill tool — right-click + drag in cell editor to fill any rectangular zone; shows a live preview overlay during selection
• Neighbor pixel strips — cell editor shows the last row/column of adjacent cells on each border to help align designs across cells
• Fill cell button — one-click bucket fill of the entire current cell with the selected color
• Colored shadows — custom vitraux now cast colored shadows matching their average design color via BlockColorProvider + tintindex; works automatically with any shader that supports shadowcolor0
• fill_cell and fill_rect C2S network payloads

Fixed

• Connected panes showing as a grid of squares — removed visible frame faces (outer tips and top/bottom edges) from side piece block models; eliminated inter-block border lines
• Top/bottom faces conditional on vertical neighbors — custom vitraux now tracks CONNECTED_UP / CONNECTED_DOWN block state properties; cap faces are only rendered when the pane is exposed (no adjacent pane above/below)
• Transparent pixels rendering dark — white_tint_pane alpha raised to 140 with normalized average color (max channel always = 255) so tint stays vivid without darkening transparent areas
• Z-fighting flicker on applied designs — BER quads offset 0.003 outward from block model face positions
• Template pane connections reset — applying a template now copies NORTH/SOUTH/EAST/WEST from the existing block state instead of resetting all connections to false
• GUI elements overlapping buttons — moved all content rendering to drawBackground() which executes before button children
• Shadow intensity weaker than legacy vitraux — resolved by vivid color normalization; custom vitraux now cast shadows of equivalent intensity

Changed

• Replaced renderProjection() with shader-native colored shadow approach
• Cell editor redesigned: preview panel on the left, pixel editor on the right, horizontal palette below
• Overview mode hover now shows sub-grid lines and cell highlight
• Currently edited cell highlighted in orange in the overview

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[0.2.0b] — 2026-06-19

Added

Blocks

• vitraux:blank_vitraux — transparent glass pane that accepts a vitraux template; crafted from 6 glass panes (3×2)
• vitraux:custom_vitraux — pane with a per-block 16×16 pixel custom pattern, placed automatically when a template is applied
• vitraux:glaziers_bench — crafting station for pixel art design; opens a GUI; crafted from 2 glass panes + 2 oak planks

Items

• vitraux:template — stores a full canvas design in NBT; applying it to a connected group of blank vitraux distributes the correct cell of the design to each pane; stacks up to 16; consumed on use

GUI

• Glazier's Bench pixel editor
  • Overview mode: shows all cells (up to 4×4) at a glance; click any cell to enter edit mode
  • Cell edit mode: 16×16 pixel grid at 8 px/pixel; drag to paint; Back button returns to overview
  • Palette of 17 swatches (16 dye colours + transparent)
  • Canvas size controls (W-/W+/H-/H+); canvas starts at 1×1 and goes up to 4×4
  • Create Template button outputs a template item to the player's inventory

BFS template application

• Right-clicking a blank vitraux with a template triggers a BFS flood-fill through all connected blank vitraux
• Each pane receives its own 16×16 cell of the design based on bounding box position
• Panes outside the template bounds are left unchanged; template is consumed on use

Distance LOD rendering

• Custom vitraux render per-block pixel art within 24 blocks
• Beyond 24 blocks falls back to blank vitraux appearance, saving GPU memory
• Per-block GPU textures built on demand and cached until pixel data changes

Technical

• C2S packets: set_pixel, set_dimensions, create_template
• S2C packet: canvas_sync (on screen open and after dimension changes)
• Block entity types: custom_vitraux, glaziers_bench
• Screen handler type: glaziers_bench
• NativeImageBackedTexture per CustomVitrauxBlockEntity with dirty-flag tracking

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[0.1b] — 2026-06-19

Added

Blocks

• 16 vitraux pane blocks (white through black), one per dye colour
• Glazed terracotta patterns converted to semi-transparent RGBA textures
• Luminance-based alpha: dark pattern lines are more opaque, bright colour areas are more transparent
• 4 texture orientations per block via the texture_facing blockstate property (0 / 90 / 180 / 270°)
• Pattern auto-orients toward the player on placement (mirrors glazed terracotta behaviour)
• Silk-touch-only loot tables — vitraux drop nothing without silk touch

Items

• vitraux:pincette — Glazier's Pincers, crafted from 2 iron ingots
• Right-clicking a placed vitraux with the Pincers rotates the pattern 90° CCW
• Custom 16×16 pixel art texture

Creative Tab

• Dedicated Vitraux tab containing all 16 panes and the Pincers

Recipes

• 6× {colour}_glazed_terracotta → 6× {colour}_vitraux (3×2 shaped)
• 2× iron ingot (column) → 1× Pincers

Shader Support

• Automatic detection of Iris Shaders via reflection (no compile-time dependency)
• Bundled vitraux_shadows shader pack auto-installed to shaderpacks/ on first launch when Iris is present
• vitraux_shadows implements per-texel coloured shadow projection using shadowcolor0
• Native compatibility with popular shader packs (Complementary, BSL, SEUS) — no configuration required