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 improvements, including instancing for players, mobs, and animals (and attachments, like armor)
- Instancing for block entities
- An optimized font renderer
- An optimized cloud renderer
- 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.