Argentum is a client performance mod for Ornithe 1.8.9, based on the Celeritas rendering engine.
A non-exhaustive list of features that currently exist:
- Rewritten terrain meshing from Celeritas
- Entity rendering:
- Instancing for players, mobs, animals (including attachments such as armor, arrows, etc)
- Optimized nametags
- Block entity rendering:
- Instancing for most block entities
- Baking for more select others
- Item rendering:
- Faster enchantment glinting
- Item baking in GUIs
- Faster and less buggy font rendering
- Optimized cloud, rain, and snow rendering
- Optimizations to select HUD elements
- Entity and particle occlusion culling
- A Celeritas-based video settings menu
A companion mod also exists under the extras folder, providing extra rendering customization and eye candy.
The cera subproject reimplements MCPatcher/OptiFine resource pack extensions.