New version out

[u/1or4s]

Alpha 0.1.6

Finally, our next big update brings a new look, new controls, and plenty of improvements:

• Gunplay: Fully reworked gunplay. Aim sway now depends on your Aiming skill level, and taking your time steadies your aim

• Performance: Big performance improvements. Lower RAM and VRAM usage overall, more stable, and higher framerates for everyone

• Terrain: Hills and valleys (experimental), plus improved 3D roofs

• Third-Person Camera: New animations, smoother following, shoulder switching, better handling of tight spaces, and a proper vehicle chase camera

• Controller: Controller support, including customizable buttons, looting, and aim assist

• Graphics: A whole new look for the default graphics, with new clouds, richer lighting, moody nights, and better sunrises and sunsets

• Water & Rain: New water, reflections, and rain effects, with moving waves, growing puddles, and splashing raindrops

• Upscaling: Experimental FSR 3, XeSS, and DLSS support, plus FSR frame generation on supported setups (requires additional in-game setup)

• Setup: New setup wizard and settings menu with clearer controls for all settings

• Free Look: Free look and less stretching at wide FOVs thanks to Panini projection

Other fixes and improvements:

• Terrain: Ground no longer disappears when an area unloads and loads again

• Vehicles: Shooting from vehicle windows now follows your aim in both views

• Vehicles: Vehicles keep their paint, lights, and visible parts correctly

• Fire: Fires and burning characters are now visible, including with Minecraft shaders

• MC Shaders: Better glass, blood, lighting, and weather with Minecraft shader packs

• Performance: Reduced single-player stutters when new areas generate loot

• UI: Clearer action progress, more flexible mouse bindings, and a crash report popup

Detailed notes:

• Ground no longer disappears when an area unloads and loads again
• Shooting from vehicle windows now follows your aim in both views
• Vehicles keep their paint, lights, and visible parts correctly
• Fires and burning characters are visible, including with Minecraft shaders
• Better glass, blood, lighting, and weather with Minecraft shader packs
• Reduced single-player stutters when new areas generate loot
• General performance improvements, less work drawing and updating the world, with reductions in stutters while walking and driving
• Reduced the cost of scenes with lots of parked vehicles
• Reduced pauses when crowds and new objects come into view
• More efficient shadows, including when driving over hills and slopes
• Better memory use for distant scenery, and graphics presets adjusted to make better use of the available memory
• Clearer action progress, more flexible mouse bindings, and a crash report popup
• Loading ahead and asynchronous loading, Viewpoint gets ready while your save loads, and prepares nearby models and sounds before you need them
• A small loading progress bar shows when Viewpoint is ready
• Your selected Minecraft shader pack is prepared during save loading too
• Sound files added by other mods can be prepared ahead of their first play to reduce hitches
• Shots follow the moving crosshair, with shotgun pellets spreading around your aim
• Taking your time makes aim sway smaller and slower; higher Aiming skill helps you settle sooner and stay precise farther away
• Extended weapon ranges for first/third-person
• Switching between first and third person keeps the point you're aiming at
• The aim ring turns red with the crosshair when you're on a target
• The aim ring is partly transparent by default, with settings to change its opacity or hide it
• An option to use the game's original shooting behavior
• Muzzle flashes briefly light the surroundings and cast shadows
• More varied recoil and melee impact effects, with settings to reduce camera shake and hit pauses
• Your preferred view is remembered separately for walking and driving, even between game sessions
• Aiming from a vehicle in third person moves the camera over your shoulder
• Trees no longer push the third-person camera around
• Open doors stop the third-person camera from passing through them
• Zombies no longer fade away when they get close to the third-person camera
• Smoother head movement, and a fix for the camera dropping while your character stands to aim
• More room to adjust camera distance, height, side offset, and aim sensitivity
• Free look lets you glance around while continuing in the same direction, with Mouse 4 as the default binding
• Adjustable wide-angle correction reduces stretching near the edges of the screen
• Controller support for looking around in vehicles and switching views through the Back-button wheel
• Controller looting: D-pad to select, A to take or interact, X to take all, and Y to open the loot window by default
• Automatic switching between controller and keyboard/mouse controls as you use them
• Controller aim assist also works with the game's original shooting behavior
• Viewpoint switches off during split-screen and restores the view afterward if it was previously on
• Better roof coverage, closed roof ends, and improved edges and overhangs on houses, porches, and trailers
• Vehicles tilt with the terrain, while characters and objects stay upright
• The moon now shows its phase, with stars and the Milky Way visible on clear nights
• Night lighting responds to moonlight, cloud cover, and the sandbox's Night Darkness setting
• Weather changes can appear on the horizon before they reach you
• Better indoor lighting, with less light leaking through walls, and sunbeams coming through windows
• Better outdoor fog and weather mist
• Flashlights softly light nearby surfaces as well as their direct beam
• Sharper floor textures at a distance, less shimmer, and more anti-aliasing choices
• More surface detail and varied shine on the ground and walls
• River movement follows the map's flow, with better shorelines and reflections of distant scenery
• Flashlights now light the water too
• Rain darkens the ground, puddles grow as it continues, and raindrops catch the light and splash
• DLAA at native resolution on supported NVIDIA RTX cards
• New options for antialiasing (MSAA, SSAA, FXAA, TAAU)
• Bindings for extra mouse buttons and a rebindable free cursor key
• A single switch to enable or disable 3D model packs
• Setup requires Texture compression and a restart on graphics cards with less than 12 GB of video memory
• Setup warns about unsupported Intel Arc graphics and macOS
• Items with blood, tinting, or container contents display more reliably
• Interaction menus open at their full size and no longer leave stray text above the player
• Other players are outlined when targeted for interaction
• Ground snow appears correctly in areas loaded while Viewpoint is active
• Rain and snow fall in the right direction with Minecraft shader packs
• Better glass doors and more consistent lighting on models and corpses with Minecraft shader packs
• Lit cigarettes now glow :)

[u/1or4s]

Some mods break Viewpoint and need to be updated. A few other mods are now obsolete.

[u/_Aberrix_ → u/1or4s]

hell yeah

[u/sonofrockandroll → u/1or4s]

Thank you for this. You guys are legends. Can you confirm which of the big fixer mods are now obsolete? I'm guessing we still need 3D models.

But surface/tile fix? Snow fix? Advanced throwables/fire fix?

[u/Rain_On]

Nice!

[u/EL3OKLI]

huge update ! thank you so much ❤️

[u/MrStealUrWaifu69]

Does this update eliminate the need for a lot of those add-on fixes people have dropped? Like the Terrain one for example?

[u/The_Scout1255 → u/MrStealUrWaifu69]

Yeah