[Suggestion] Add Vulkan support

[Splarkszter]

Describe the feature

So, there is a mod called VulkanMod; i very much expected it won't work with this tool called Meteor Client, i'm just asking if it could be feasible.

I know, i know, possibly a complete rewrite would be needed to migrate from the OpenGL API to the Vulkan API, but also it would be so sick.

And, well it's true the mod is not complete, and for this to even be possible we will need to wait for this mod to be completed, i think i'm just leaving this here so the idea is around :)

Vulkan is the future :)

Before submitting a suggestion

• This feature doesn't already exist in the client. (I have checked every module and their settings on the latest dev build)

• This wasn't already suggested. (I have searched suggestions on GitHub and read the FAQ)

[Ikstoi]

lol

[Funtimes909]

Cool idea, however "it would be sick" is not a good enough reason to rewrite the whole damn mod

would be needed to rewrite literally all of meteors renderer to support vulkans vbo and shaders

[sqrvrt]

Although would be cool to have at least a stripped down version of meteor which works... I mean baritone already works for example...

[Big-Iron-Cheems]

While abstracting meteor to work with both OpenGL and Vulkan sounds interesting, it'd require a load of dev time and interest to be achieved.
I personally don't see a real need for this, considering the fact that VulkanMod is still in pre-alpha as stated by the devs.

[VitzS7ven]

up

I would love to see this. Vulkan is indeed the future, mon ami.

[LIUW573]

The latest version of Vulkanmod has improved compatibility with OpenGL. After modifying the fabric.mod.json in Wurst, everything except display-related features works normally. I hope Meteor can implement compatibility with Vulkanmod based on this optimization.

The latest version of Vulkanmod has improved compatibility with OpenGL. After modifying the fabric.mod.json in Wurst, everything except display-related features works normally. I hope Meteor can implement compatibility with Vulkanmod based on this optimization.

Actually came back to this issue to comment this xD

From the VulkanMod repo, release 0.5.5:

Compatibility
- Improved OpenGL compatibility
- Improved Fabric rendering API compatibiltiy

So they also improved the Fabric rendering API compatibility, not just OpenGL. So that's awesome.

[Kelvinlby]

Really need it. Apple silicon users now rely heavily on vulkan mod for FPS boosting because apple has dropped support for OpenGL and now OpenGL is running with extremely bad performance

[Big-Iron-Cheems]

Update since the recent Mojang announcement on them moving to Vulkan API (relevant article):

• We still do not need to support VulkanMod
• OpenGL code dependency is already minimal in Meteor, and we'll make sure to phase it out thanks to the abstractions Minecraft already provides within their own rendering system

We expect the changes to come either with Minecraft 26.1 or in a later update, so just wait for that and we'll work on it later on.