New Features
Godrays
There are both screen space and volumetric options - screen space being faster but looking wrong in some situations and not workinng when the sun is offscreen.
Cloud Shadows
Clouds now cast shadows on the terrain, as well as through fog!
Light scattering in water
Left is without scattering, right is with scattering.
Parallax
Adding depth to your blocks and entities with a suitable resource pack.
Improvements
- Specular highlights should no longer explode at glancing angles
- Support stellar view shader compatibility mode
- Improved fog rendering
Fixes
- Versions of Iris without tag support now work.
Known Issues
- Artifacting behind water on Intel GPUs.
New Features
- Contrast and saturation sliders
- Ambient occlusion on Distant Horizons terrain
- Added 'fast reflections' option
Improvements
- Distant horizons terrain generally renders better
- Much better rendering of 'cloudy fog'
- Light sources are now emissive
- Tweaked skylight colour
Fixes
- Fixed tonemaps that aren't Heji-Burgess not applying inverse gamma correction
- Fixed reflections on infinite ocean
- Fixed held items being translucent
This is a really bad naming scheme but I won't call it v1.0 until I fix the issues on Intel UHD graphics, in the meantime...
- Added distant horizons support
- Added 'infinite ocean' option
- Improved fog and weather
- Improved how water normals are handled at glancing angles
Initial Glimmer testing release