wgpu-mc

🚀 A blazing fast alternative renderer for Minecraft

Discord

https://discord.gg/NTuK8bQ2hn

Matrix

https://matrix.to/#/#wgpu-mc:matrix.org

Intro

wgpu is a crate implementing the WebGPU specification in Rust. It's primary backends are Vulkan, DirectX 12, and Metal.

Goals

wgpu-mc is a standalone, mostly-batteries-included rendering engine written in Rust. Electrum is a fabric mod that integrates wgpu-mc with Minecraft.

Current status

Both the engine and Electrum are both currently under active development. wgpu-mc is fairly mature, while Electrum is more WIP.

Screenshots

8/25/23

WIP Features

The features listed below are not necessarily fully complete and may still be bugged

Engine

• Block models from standard datapacks
  • Multipart
  • Variants
• Terrain rendering
• • Translucency sorting
• • Frustum culling
• • Lighting (AO + block/sky light)
• Instanced Entity Rendering
• Animated textures
• Mipmaps
• Data-driven shader graph

Minecraft

• GUI rendering
• Terrain rendering
  • Lighting integration
  • Chunk updates
• Entities
• • Instancing (one draw call per entity type)
• • Model upload (Models are correctly translated dynamically from Minecraft's format into the wgpu-mc entity struct format)
• • Player atlas
• • Textures (Somewhat working, UVs are bugged)
• Item rendering
• Implement FRAPI/FREX
• Particles