What's new?
This update is very similar to the previous update of Roundista, however I am finally recovering this project with this update, and more updates will follow which I'll be talking about in this blog.
The Pale Oak Biome.
Almost all pale oak biome textures have been added with some exceptions like boat and signs.
What changed?
Mainly the resource pack is now up to date with latest mc version and recent rendering changes, along with a minor fix in bamboo gate texture and the pack loading screen colors now match the new website and brand colors.
Fixing textures rendering as translucent in latest Minecraft versions.
As mentioned in the Roundista blog, Minecraft decided to change some stuff in how things are rendered in recent Minecraft versions which caused many packs including Simplista to break.
Once again big thanks to @Luna the developer of the amazing Alpha Piscium shader pack for helping me figure out the issue, and determine the fix.
So the issue was that in new mc versions the opacity of the color texture can't be in the range of 0-255, it specifically has to be 0 or 255 for the textures to render as cutout, otherwise due to the change in rendering the texture would render as translucent.
I think I've once again manged to fix all textures that would render as translucent due to this change, however if you do still see any please do report it so I can fix them.
Future plans?
The state of this project isn't very good I won't like, but I have plans to make it better.
Making random textures connect without CTM (continuity mod) (same as recent roundista update).
Random textures shouldn't rely on Continuty/CTM and should be randomly connected using custom models and blockstates.
The reason to do this would be as Minecraft releases a new version the CTM feature of the resource pack would not work until the CTM/Continuity mod is also updated, which it typically does in a few days, however with this change the random textures will work without the mod, which I think is a improvement.
Textures that use the compact method of CTM/Continuity mod would still rely on the mod to work.
Foliage update.
I think a foliage update is long overdue, and I was hoping to introduce new foliage which I've recently showcased in my discord server, however I wasn't able to deliver it as the models needs to be optimized as they not performance friendly currently.
The main inspiration for this was Minecraft Dungeons, and I've tried to make it as close to how it is on Minecraft Dungeons as possible, though I cannot promise if even with the planned optimisations it will work in the end as I am also encountering some z-fighting issues with models that needs solving.
That's all for this update, I hope you will enjoy it.
~ Shivam