Zoom Extended Beta v0.1.0

Initial Beta Release

Zoom Controls

• Added highly configurable multi-step zooming with dedicated controls for zooming, zooming in, zooming out, and opening settings.
• Added Hold and Toggle zoom activation modes.
• Added configurable remembering of the previously selected zoom step.
• Added an option to reset the selected zoom step when joining or changing worlds.
• Added an option to disable zoom input while menus, inventories, chat, and other screens are open.
• Added separate Zoom In / Next Step and Zoom Out / Previous Step keybinds.
• Added clean zoom-step behavior without intrusive step/status messages.

Zoom Steps

• Added a configurable zoom-step system supporting 2–64 zoom levels.
• Added 20 zoom steps by default for fine zoom control.
• Added a default zoom range of 2x–64x magnification.
• Added configurable minimum and maximum zoom magnification.
• Added automatically generated, smoothly distributed zoom levels between the selected minimum and maximum.
• Added configurable default zoom-step selection.
• Added Clamp and Wrap behavior when moving past the first or last zoom step.
• Added an option to reverse the direction of zoom-step controls.
• Added an in-settings preview of the currently generated zoom range and zoom multipliers.

Mouse-Wheel Zooming

• Added an option to invert mouse-wheel zoom direction.
• Added configurable numbers of zoom steps moved per scroll.
• Added separate smoothing duration specifically for mouse-wheel zooming.

Zoom Animations

• Added independently configurable zoom-in and zoom-out animations.

• Added separate zoom-in and zoom-out transition lengths.

• Added a global animation-speed multiplier.

• Added optional smooth animations when changing between zoom steps.

• Added optional tick-based / quantized zoom animations.

• Added configurable animation tick counts for stepped animations.

• Added configurable overshoot strength for Back-style animations.

• Added 12 easing styles:

  • Linear
  • Ease In
  • Ease Out
  • Ease In/Out
  • Sine
  • Cubic
  • Quartic
  • Quintic
  • Exponential
  • Back
  • Elastic
  • Bounce

Camera & View

• Added configurable minimum FOV protection for extreme zoom levels.

• Added an optional extreme-FOV clamp to prevent zooming below the configured minimum FOV.

• Added an option to completely hide the first-person hand and held item while zooming.

• Added an option to apply the zoomed FOV to the first-person hand when it remains visible.

• Added configurable HUD behavior while zooming:

  • Normal — leaves the HUD untouched.
  • Fade — applies a configurable cinematic darkening effect.
  • Hide — completely hides the HUD, crosshair, and hotbar while zooming.

• Added configurable HUD fade strength.

• HUD hiding is enabled by default for a clean zoomed view.

• Hand and held-item hiding is enabled by default while zooming.

Mouse Sensitivity

• Added automatic zoom-relative mouse sensitivity.
• Mouse sensitivity can automatically decrease as magnification increases for much more precise aiming at high zoom levels.
• Added configurable relative-sensitivity strength.
• Supports fully proportional 1/zoom sensitivity scaling or weaker custom scaling.
• Relative sensitivity adjustment is enabled by default.

Zoom Sounds

• Added configurable zoom sound feedback.

• Added a master switch for all zoom sounds.

• Added separate sound toggles for:

  • Entering zoom.
  • Leaving zoom.
  • Changing zoom steps.

• Added a short tick-style sound when changing zoom steps.

• Added configurable sound volume.

• Added configurable base sound pitch.

• Added configurable step-pitch variation across the zoom range, allowing stronger zoom levels to produce progressively different pitches.

Entity Rendering Optimization

• Added an optional zoom-aware entity rendering optimization system.

• Entity optimization is disabled by default and can be enabled manually.

• Added Zoom Only and Always optimization modes.

• Added multiple ready-made optimization profiles:

  • Conservative
  • Balanced
  • Aggressive
  • Custom

• Added adaptive entity-render-distance scaling based on current zoom strength.

• Added a configurable minimum magnification before zoom-only optimization begins.

• Added a configurable minimum adaptive-distance scale for extreme zoom levels.

• Added an option to preserve normal player rendering distances.

• Added individually configurable rendering distances for:

  • Players
  • Hostile mobs
  • Passive mobs
  • Dropped items and projectiles
  • Other entities

• Manually changing optimization distances automatically allows fully custom optimization behavior.

Configuration

• Settings are organized into:

  • General
  • Animation
  • View & Scroll
  • Steps
  • Sound & Feedback
  • Optimization

• Added per-page Reset to Defaults controls.

• Added persistent configuration saving between game sessions.

Technical

• Fabric keybind integration with fully remappable zoom controls.

• Added support for smoothly applying zoom directly to the camera FOV.

• Added compatibility-focused handling for camera FOV, first-person rendering, HUD rendering, mouse input, and entity render distances.

• Licensed under Apache License 2.0.