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[SBW] Superb Horizons

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[SBW] Superb Horizons

By VellEagle

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This mod allows vehicle entities in Superb Warfare to be displayed as ghost models even when they are outside the draw distance.

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Description

⚠️ Beta Notice This mod is still in beta. Rendering glitches or synchronization issues may occur in some situations. Please report any bugs you find in the comments or on Vell's Mods Info Server.

Overview

Superb Horizons is a companion mod for Superb Warfare that solves one of the most frustrating problems in large-scale battles: vehicles disappearing the moment they leave your render distance.

When you install this mod, vehicles in “Superb Warfare” (tanks, helicopters, aircraft, etc.) will continue to be displayed as ghost models even at distances far beyond the normal rendering distance. (The maximum draw distance for ghost models in Superb Horizons is set to 4096 by default. Ghost models are not rendered beyond this distance.) This allows you to track enemy and friendly vehicles across the entire battlefield without having to set unrealistic rendering distances.

It works with every vehicle from Superb Warfare and its add-on mods. As long as a vehicle is built on Superb Warfare's vehicle system, it is tracked and displayed automatically. No extra setup is needed.

Features

  • Ghost models of distant vehicles, using the real vehicle model
  • Synced animations: turrets, gun barrels, wheels, tracks, propellers, landing gear and body roll
  • Synced firing: firing animations, muzzle flashes and muzzle smoke play on distant vehicles
  • Synced weapon loadout: weapons that appear when loaded (e.g. missiles and bombs under the wings) are shown correctly
  • Distant Horizons integration: ghost models are drawn directly into Distant Horizons' LOD rendering, so they are correctly hidden behind distant LOD terrain
  • Shader pack support (Oculus / Iris)
  • Ghosts automatically switch to the real entity when the vehicle comes within normal render distance

Requirements

   
Minecraft 1.20.1 (Forge) / 1.21.1 (NeoForge)
Superb Warfare Required
SBW Optimized Required (client only)
Distant Horizons Optional, but recommended

Why SBW Optimized is required

Rendering many vehicles as ghost models at long range, together with Distant Horizons, can put a heavy load on your PC. Starting with version 1.0.0, Superb Horizons requires SBW Optimized, a rendering optimization mod for Superb Warfare, to keep this load as low as possible.

SBW Optimized speeds up the rendering of Superb Warfare vehicle models, which greatly reduces the performance cost of both normal vehicles and distant ghost vehicles.

Installation

  Superb Horizons SBW Optimized Distant Horizons
Singleplayer ✅ ✅ Recommended
Multiplayer – Server ✅ ❌ Not needed ❌ Not needed
Multiplayer – Client ✅ ✅ Recommended

In multiplayer, the server sends distant vehicle data and the client draws the ghosts, so Superb Horizons must be installed on both sides.

Distant Horizons

Superb Horizons is designed to be used together with Distant Horizons. With both installed, you can see the terrain and the vehicles on it across the entire battlefield.

The mod also works without Distant Horizons, but there will be no LOD terrain for the ghost vehicles to sit on, so it may look a little odd.

Configuration

Settings are in config/superbhorizons-common.toml.

Setting Default Side Description
maxGhostDistance 4096 Server Maximum distance for ghost vehicles
animationMaxDistance 4096 Server Maximum distance for animation sync
renderGhosts true Client Turn ghost rendering on/off
ghostFullDetailModel true Client Set to false to use Superb Warfare's lighter long-range model
dhShaderOcclusion true Client Set to false if the screen looks broken with a shader pack
ghostProjectiles false Server Experimental ghosts for shells, rockets and missiles

Known Limitations

  • Even with SBW Optimized, ghost models still cost some rendering performance. Very large battles with many vehicles may reduce FPS.
  • Ghost rendering reads Superb Warfare's internal data. A future Superb Warfare update may break some features until this mod is updated.
  • Not every Superb Warfare and add-on vehicle has been tested. Some vehicles may display incorrectly.

Superb Horizons is an unofficial companion mod and is not affiliated with the Superb Warfare development team.

Credits

  • VellEagle (Author)
  • Aru (Coder)
  • Denys-shatin (Coder)