New Features and Additions
- overhauled shadow projection
- improved edge behavior
- very small shadow bias due to improvements
- higher quality shadowing on translucency
- new shadow filtering
- including soft and sharp shadows
- much faster and better quality
- three selectable quality presets
- PCSS shadowing
- overhauled volumetric clouds
- new, more authentic cloud shape using worley noise
- vastly improved performance
- increased cloud quality by improving sample distribution
- new and more accurate lighting modes
- improved inscattering approximation
- multiscattering
- new layered clouds
- faster than volumetrics but at lower cost and better scalability
- featuring similar lighting and shape to the volumetric clouds
- reworked 2D clouds
- new shape for improved visuals
- now lit properly
- overhauled volumetric fog
- improved coloring
- improved distance based density
- improved height falloff
- proper underwater fogging
- new cloud reflections
- no longer relying on screen space for cloud reflections
- overhauled water
- including caustics that also affect underwater fog
- new water normals
- water refraction
- new lava fogging
- overhauled sky
- featuring a semi-physical circular sun disk
- better gradients and more realistic appearance
- reworked sky colors
- options to use world time for animation
- new metal-specific shading option
- resource pack support
- featuring pbr and normal mapping
- reworked biome specific effects
- more settings exposed to settings screen
Improvements and Fixes
- overall improved performance
- more correct interaction of screen space reflections and volumetric fog
- fixed fog and translucency
- improved screen space reflection quality
- old lighting is now disabled by default
- optimized wind effects
- fixed small issue in daytime calculation
- fixed entity issues
- fixed entity overlays
- fixed beacons being dark
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