Better Mipmaps

Overview

Have you ever noticed how noisy Minecraft looks in the distance when using a high-resolution resource pack?The reason is that by default, Minecraft only supports full mipmaps for 16×16 textures and below.

Anything higher than that will have incomplete mipmaps.
This mod fixes this by increasing the maximum level of mipmaps to 10 (1024×1024).

The optimal mipmap level depends on the resolution of your resource pack and can be found in the table below:
| Texture Resolution | Optimal Mipmap Level |
|——————–|———————-|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 1 |
| 4 | 2 |
| 8 | 3 |
| 16 | 4 |
| 32 | 5 |
| 64 | 6 |
| 128 | 7 |
| 256 | 8 |
| 512 | 9 |

Technical Details

The problem with generating a full mipmap pyramids for Minecraft textures is that Minecraft combines all block textures into one big texture atlas. The maximum mipmap level of this atlas is a smallest maximum mipmap level of any individual texture.
So even when using a 99% complete resource pack, a single left-over 16×16 texture will limit the atlas to 4 mipmap levels. To work around this, this mod will automatically attempt to upscale smaller textures before the stitching process.