BlackView

BlackView

Vanilla has a video settings screen. Sodium has its own. Sodium Extra has a
third. Iris has a fourth. Changing how the game looks means walking through two,
three or four separate menus, and there’s no vanilla way to save a configuration
and come back to it.

BlackView puts all four in one screen and lets you save the whole thing as a
named preset.

The screen

Five tabs, each keeping its own scroll position:

• Graphics — everything vanilla’s video settings exposes (render distance,
  graphics mode, clouds, smooth lighting, entity shadows, biome blend, mipmaps,
  FOV, brightness, GUI scale, framerate limit, VSync, view bobbing, texture
  filtering, anisotropy) plus Sodium’s quality settings and Sodium Extra’s
  animation and detail toggles.
• Chunks & Performance — Sodium’s chunk builder threads and performance
  options, vanilla’s chunk update priority, Sodium Extra’s render settings.
• Particles — vanilla particle density and Sodium Extra’s per-type toggles.
• Shaders — every pack in shaderpacks/ as a dropdown, plus None.
• Presets — save, rename, delete, apply.

With all four mods installed that’s 120–180 options. Tabs keep finding one to
two clicks instead of a scroll through everything.

Features

• One screen — vanilla, Sodium, Sodium Extra and Iris side by side, so
  tuning your graphics is a single pass instead of a tour of four menus.
• Presets — save the state of all four mods at once under a name. A
  “Shaders” preset at render distance 24, Fabulous, BSL_v8.2.zip selected; a
  “Farm” preset at 8, Fast, particles minimal, shaders off. Switch between them
  without re-tuning anything by hand.
• Hotkeys — V opens the screen, N cycles presets. Both rebindable. A
  toast names the preset that landed, so you can reconfigure mid-game without
  opening a menu.
• Portable presets — plain JSON in config/blackview/presets/. Values for a
  mod you don’t have are skipped on apply, so a preset made on a modpack still
  works on a lighter instance.
• Settings screen — through ModMenu, if you have it installed.
• Optional everything — Sodium, Sodium Extra and Iris are each optional. If
  one isn’t installed its rows simply aren’t there; no greyed-out section, no
  error.

How it works

BlackView reads and writes the other mods’ config files instead of compiling
against them, and rewrites only the values it touched. Options are discovered
from what’s actually in those files rather than hardcoded, so a new Sodium
toggle shows up on your next launch. If a config moves or a key is renamed, the
affected rows disappear or get a derived label — nothing crashes.

Requirements

Client-side only. No server install needed, and it works on any server you
join.

BlackView is a settings interface — it doesn’t raise framerate on its own. It’s
how you reach, save and reuse the settings of the mods that do.