Distant Horizons and Methane

[bobbob215]

is there any way to also use Distance Horizons Mod with Methane?
https://modrinth.com/mod/distanthorizons

currently, Methane just disables the Distance Horizons Mod. would love to have both run at the same time.

[AnOpenSauceDev]

Distant horizons will only generate with Methane toggled OFF. This might be a tough problem

[AnOpenSauceDev]

i decided to do some more digging into this, and it randomly just... worked while i was afk? Not quite sure what happened, as i haven't really looked into how Distant Horizions works all that much, but it is interesting.

[AnOpenSauceDev]

@bobbob215
so I've found a sort of "fix" for the time being. Toggle Methane OFF, then ON, re-join your world, and everything seems to work fine. It seems like whatever plauges Sodium, also causes this to be randomly start working.

[AnOpenSauceDev]

• needs to be tested on 1.20

[Alleop5]

• needs to be tested on 1.20

Doesn't work in 1.20 either

[AnOpenSauceDev]

This is now an issue on the Distant Horizons GitLab. A workaround that I use is also available there. (comment)

Issue link: https://gitlab.com/jeseibel/distant-horizons/-/issues/594

The issue is that Methane doesn't create a lightmap (and couldn't do it properly until 3.0.0), so weird things happened with LOD chunks. On 3.0.0+, you can get Distant Horizons working pretty well by toggling on then off using the keybind.

[AnOpenSauceDev]

FWIW, Voxy works flawlessly out of the box with Methane, LOD's also have their lighting skipped properly by Methane. (LOD's don't adapt to dynamic shading, so turn that off.)

I know this isn't a fix to DH specifically, but it's work looking at in the meantime.