Rendering Tracker

[Purdze]

Rendering Parity

World & Terrain

• Opaque block rendering
• Cutout/alpha-tested blocks
• Ambient occlusion (4-level smooth)
• Directional face shading
• Biome color tints (grass/foliage/water)
• Block breaking progress overlay (destroy stages)
• Block selection outline (wireframe)
• Translucent pass with depth sorting (water/glass/stained)
• Animated textures (water flow, lava, fire, portal, command block, observer, sea lantern, magma, prismarine, kelp)
• Flowing water/lava vertex animation + direction
• Fluid rendering (surface height, still vs flowing UVs)
• Emissive blocks (glowstone, sea lantern, end rod, lava, torches)
• Falling block / moving block entity (sand, gravel, piston-moved)
• Tile entity models (chest, bed, banner, sign, shulker, enchant table, bell, beacon, conduit, decorated pot, skull, trial spawner, vault, lectern)
• Banner & shield pattern layers
• Beacon beam
• End portal / end gateway portal shader
• Conduit beam/frame animation
• Chunk border debug overlay (F3+G) pipeline exists, verify parity

Sky & Atmosphere

• Sun disc (24000-tick cycle positioning)
• Moon with 8 phases
• Stars (night, time-based brightness)
• Sky gradient (day/night keyframes)
• Sunrise / sunset color band (16-step palette)
• Distance fog (linear, horizon color)
• Clouds (fast + fancy, animated drift)
• Rain rendering (slanted streaks, biome-aware)
• Snow rendering (cold biomes)
• Lightning bolt rendering + full-screen flash
• Weather darkening (sky/light dim during storms)
• Biome-specific sky colors (swamp, nether, end, etc.)
• Void fog (below y=0)
• Underwater fog (blue-green tint, reduced distance)
• Nether fog (red, short distance)
• End sky (black void + end panorama)
• Powder snow fog

Lighting

• Baked per-vertex lightmap (sky + block packed)
• sRGB/linear gamma correction
• Lightmap texture generation matching vanilla curve (per-dimension)
• Night vision brightness override
• Nether ambient lighting tone
• End ambient lighting tone
• Lightning-triggered sky brighten
• Flicker for torch/fire light (vanilla animates lightmap slightly)

Entities

• [~] Entity model system (pig only currently)
• [~] Walk animation
• Player model + skin rendering (in-world, not just preview)
• Cape & elytra layers
• Armor render layers (helmet/chest/legs/boots, trims)
• Held-item layer (item in entity hand)
• All passive mobs (cow, sheep-with-wool, chicken, horse, llama, camel, axolotl, bee, cat, dog, parrot, bat, fox, panda, goat, etc.)
• All hostile mobs (zombie, skeleton, creeper, spider, enderman, witch, husk, drowned, pillager, vindicator, evoker, ravager, warden, breeze, bogged, etc.)
• Aquatic mobs (squid, guardian, dolphin, fish variants, turtle)
• Flying mobs (ghast, blaze, phantom, vex, allay)
• Bosses (ender dragon, wither, elder guardian)
• Projectiles (arrow, trident, snowball, egg, potion, firework, fireball, wither skull, end pearl)
• Vehicles (boat, chest boat, minecart variants)
• Decorative (painting, item frame, glow item frame, armor stand, end crystal, primed TNT, area effect cloud, leash knot)
• Falling block entity render
• Item entity (ground drops) — basic exists, verify rotation/bob/stack visual
• XP orb render
• Nametags above entities
• Entity shadows (circular blob under feet)
• Leash rope
• Riding offsets
• Hitbox outlines (F3+B)
• Creeper charge/swirl, wither armor, spider eyes, enderman eyes, phantom eyes
• Spin-attack (trident riptide) effect
• Enchantment glint overlay on items/armor/weapons

Particles

• Particle system (none exists)
• Smoke / large smoke / campfire smoke / ash
• Flame / small flame / soul flame / lava
• Bubble / bubble column / bubble pop / splash / wake / water drop
• Drip (water / lava / honey / dripstone)
• Dust / colored dust / dust plume / falling dust / terrain break
• Enchantment glyphs / spell / instant spell / witch magic
• Redstone dust
• Portal / reverse portal
• Explosion / huge explosion
• Item pickup / break / note / heart
• Sculk charge / shriek / vibration signal / sonic boom
• Dragon breath / totem / gust
• Snowflake / falling leaves
• Crit / sweep / magic crit
• Firework spark / trail

HUD & Overlays

• Hotbar + selected slot frame
• Health hearts (full/half/empty)
• Hunger/food bar
• Armor bar
• Air bubbles
• Crosshair
• Chat display
• Tab list (player list)
• F3 debug overlay
• XP bar + level number
• Boss health bar(s) (colored, stacked)
• Scoreboard sidebar
• Status effect icons (top-right)
• Subtitles
• Item use/attack cooldown overlay
• Held item name popup (appears on switch)
• Vignette
• Pumpkin head overlay
• Portal swirl overlay (nether portal proximity)
• Underwater overlay (blue tint + distortion)
• Powder snow overlay
• Freezing blue tint
• On-fire flame overlay
• Damage red tint / hurt flash
• Nausea warp (screen distortion)
• Spyglass circular overlay
• Map held in hand render

First-Person / Held Item

• [~] Hand + swing animation (arm only)
• [~] Held item in hand
• Item use animations (eat/drink, block with shield, bow draw, crossbow charge, spyglass, trident, fishing rod)
• Bobbing (walk bob, sprint bob)
• Block-in-hand rendering with correct transform
• Enchantment glint on held item

Post-Processing

• Pause-menu blur
• Panorama cubemap background
• Entity outline (spectator highlight / glowing effect)
• Screen shake (knockback/explosion)

Screens (visual parity only, not full functionality)

• Main menu with panorama
• Pause menu
• Death screen
• Inventory screen (visual)
• Creative inventory
• Container screens (chest/hopper/dispenser/barrel/shulker)
• Crafting table / furnace / smoker / blast furnace
• Anvil / smithing / grindstone / loom / stonecutter / cartography
• Enchanting table / brewing stand / beacon
• Sign edit / book edit / lectern view
• Advancements / statistics / recipe book

World Features

• World border (vertical warning wall)
• Ender dragon death animation
• Wither spawn shockwave