Panorama Studio

Panorama Studio is a client-side Fabric mod for Minecraft Java 1.21.11. It captures a true six-face panorama without rotating the player entity, lets you browse, rename, and delete captures in game, and turns any capture into a title-screen resource pack.

Requirements

• Minecraft Java 1.21.11
• Java 21 or newer
• Fabric Loader 0.18.1 or newer
• Fabric API 0.141.5+1.21.11
• Mod Menu 17.0.0 or newer

The mod is client-only and does not need to be installed on a server.

Use

1. Join a world or server.
2. Press J to open Panorama Studio, or open Mods → Panorama Studio in Mod Menu.
3. Choose Capture and wait while the six square faces and preview are processed.
4. Select a capture. Click its thumbnail for the full-screen drag-to-look panorama viewer.
5. Rename it, delete it with confirmation, or choose Make title pack.
6. Enter a resource-pack name. The mod creates <name>.zip under resourcepacks/ and enables it automatically by default.

J is the mod's only key binding and is configurable in Minecraft's normal controls screen. Capture is only started from the gallery. Settings cover face resolution, supersampling, per-face warm-up renders, and automatic pack enabling; each option has an explanatory hover tooltip.

The gallery can sort by newest/oldest capture date and filter by dimension or server/single-player world.

Captures are stored in:

screenshots/panorama_studio/<capture-id>

Renderer compatibility

| Mod | Behaviour |
| --- | --- |
| Iris | Uses the normal Iris world/shader pipeline. Iris's time uniforms stay fixed for the burst while a fail-soft compatibility hook refreshes camera-dependent uniforms for every face. |
| Sodium | Supported; Panorama Studio enables the standard FREX “flawless frames” mode during capture. |
| Bobby | Cached chunks render normally; flawless-frames mode asks Bobby to finish loading ready cached chunks. |
| Voxy | Uses its normal main-target render path and flawless-frames queue draining. Voxy itself requires hardware/driver support that macOS does not provide. |
| Distant Horizons | Its normal GameRenderer hooks and LOD passes participate. A warm-up render is performed for each direction. |
| Entity Culling | Entity and block-entity culling are bypassed in memory only during the six renders and restored immediately afterward. |
| Freecam by Hashalite | The capture and its saved coordinates use Minecraft's active render camera, including Freecam and tripod camera positions. |

All compatibility integrations are optional and fail soft. Panorama Studio can only capture chunks or LOD data the client already has loaded or cached; it cannot invent terrain the server never sent. If an optional renderer is disabled or unavailable, the ordinary rendered world is captured.

Resource-pack behaviour

Packs target resource format 75.0 for Minecraft 1.21.11 and are published as atomic .zip files. The ZIP and Resource Packs screen name follow the user-entered name, with only characters unsafe on Windows/macOS replaced. The description records the server or single-player world, dimension, and that the pack was made with Panorama Studio.

Enabling a new Panorama Studio pack deselects older packs carrying Panorama Studio's generated-pack marker so the latest background has deterministic priority; the older pack ZIPs are not deleted. Success is reported after Minecraft finishes a single resource reload.

Turn off Auto-enable generated packs if you only want the pack added to the resource-pack folder.

Known caveats

• High supersampling and heavy shader packs can use substantial VRAM. The internal render size is capped at 4096×4096.
• Six readback buffers can be outstanding during the atomic burst. At the 4096×4096 cap this matches vanilla panorama capture's roughly 384 MiB of raw GPU staging data before overhead.
• Arbitrary shader-pack temporal history, screen-space reflections, or stochastic effects cannot be made mathematically seamless for every shader, although atomic rendering and overscan remove the common movement/time and framebuffer-edge causes.
• High-resolution captures can briefly freeze the client while its render thread submits every face. This does not pause or alter a multiplayer server.

Licensed under the MIT License.