Release 0.15

• Added dynamic/colored lighting! requires Iris 1.6+ [beta]

• Added custom End sky.

• Added post-process blurring for soft-shadows, SSS, SSAO, & SSGI.

• Added support for translucent entities (Iris only).

• Added vertex waving option for blocky/vanilla foliage.

• Added item glint support (enchantment glow).

• Added custom dynamic lava texturing.

• Added dithering for artificial particle transparency.

• Added screen-space global-illumination (SSGI).

• Added water foam/dirt.

• Added FXAA.

• Fixed a bug with clouds making everything very slow.

• Fixed directional blocklight (DLM) feature.

• Fixed sun color temperature.

• Fixed several misc shadow bugs.

• Fixed particle shadows.

• Fixed nether compatibility.

• Fixed HW soft-shadowing (Iris only).

• Fixed cave brightness when shadows are disabled.

• Fixed shadows on first-person hands/items.

• Fixed (extra) noise on volumetric lighting.

• Fixed colored distorted shadows.

• Fixed ambient light flickering.

• Fixed misc bugs with PhysicsMod ocean water support.

• Fixed depth-write POM on first-person hand/items.

• Fixed bug with torches being chocolate.

• Improved speed of cascaded shadows.

• Improved sky fog & volumetric lighting.

• Improved water fog & volumetric lighting.

• Improved rain atmosphere.

• Improved Nether smoke.

• Improved SSS algorithm.

• Removed RSM global illumination.

• Removed shadowmap SSS.

Release 0.14

• Fix water waves being inverted.
• Fix water culling (/stretching) bug.
• Fix colored shadows not working.
• Fix sky-fog when underwater.
• Fix water showing in boats.
• Fix handlight in 3rd person (Iris only).
• Fix nether/end support.
• Replaced vanilla-style atmosphere with realistic one.
• Improve weather particle lighting.
• Slightly improved cloud shape.

note: Cascaded shadows are now faster, but require Iris 1.6 or later.
note 2: Bloom sucks and will be replaced soon; disabled by default for now.

Release 0.13

• Fixed normal map decoding for "Patrix-PBR".
• Fixed custom support for PhysicsMod snow.
• Fixed features not being disabled in nether/end; those dimensions should now be faster.
• Added custom support for PhysicsMod ocean waves.
• Added fog/smoke to the nether & end dimensions.
• Added option for adjusting water wave strength.
• Added option for adjusting atmosphere minimum fog/smoke level.
• Added underwater blur option.
• Improved colors of sky & sunlight.
• Improved quality of subsurface lighting.
• Improved performance of cascaded shadows.
• Improved performance of volumetric lighting/fog.
• Improved bias for cascaded shadows.
• Improve weather fog shape/levels.
• Improved particle lighting.

note: Shadows, subsurface scattering, and RSM-GI are now filtered with random noise. This currently produces a very noisy result, but much better distribution at low sample counts. I'm working towards improving this though.

Release 0.12

• Fix wmpty screen when fog is disabled.
• Fix bloom options.
• Fix crash when using manual exposure.
• Fix crash with water on Potato profile.
• Fix water TIR.
• Fix VL cloud visiblity bug.
• Added cloud height option.
• Added atmosphere extinction.
• Added volumetric fog.
• Added 6 spp option for shadow/SSS filtering.
• Improved support for OF scaled resolution.
• Adjusted VL strength (affects sky less).
• Reduced blocklight brightness.
• Revise water wave shape.
• Darkened non-VL water color.

Iris

• Fixed sun transmittance & fog noise bindings.
• Now using custom raw textures.
• Enabled per-biome effects.

Release 0.11

• Improve speed and quality of screen-space reflections.
• Fix colored volumetric lighting.
• Separate sky & water VL options.
• Fix VL in reflections.
• Fix water VL & particles on Iris.
• Improved day/night light & shadow transition.
• Improved sun/moon coloring & brightness.
• Improved threshold for weather puddles/snow.
• Improved water coloring, wave size, reflection edges.
• Improved shadow filtering.
• Fix hand-lit lighting of weather particles.
• Added a depth-of-field effect.
• [Mostly] fixed support for Minecraft < 1.17
• Removed [already broken] "fancy" refraction option.

NOTE: The default material format has been changed from "LabPBR" to "Vanilla", make sure to set it appropriately if using a PBR supporting resource-pack!

Release 0.10

• Added support for night-vision effect.
• Added integrated PBR for PhysicsMod snow.
• Added optional weather wetness & snow accumulation.
• Added optional biome-specific wetness & snowfall accumulation.
• Fix 1.19+ and nether/end support.
• Fix decoding of OldPbr normals.
• Improved cloud density, shape, lighting.
• Improved night sky stars.
• Improved sky/water volumetric lighting.
• Improved SSS & transmission coloring.
• Improved in-hand item light colors.
• Disabled biome water colors on Iris (not yet supported).
• Revised settings menu & default values.

Release 0.9

• Improved volumetric lighting, water, sky, clouds, SSS, SSR.
• Add initial version of non-vanilla clouds.
• Fix bug with bilateral gaussian blur/upscaling.
• Fix depth-write parallax water waves.

Release 0.8

• Improved SSR, SSS, RSM, SSAO, bloom, exposure, metals, handlight, contact-shadows, water.
• Fix fog blending on clouds & particles.
• Fix parallax water depth-write POM.
• Fix specular opacity bug.
• Fix cloud brightness.
• Add "far" [only] contact-shadow option.
• Add SSR edge softening.

Release 0.7

• Fixed rendering of signs, maps, nametags
• Fix End dimension compatibility
• Fixed particle lighting bug
• Added camera brightness, saturation options
• Improved sunlight colors
• Improved lighting of metal materials
• Improved Water waves, color
• Improved Bloom & Volumetric Lighting
• Improved SSS color/brightness
• Improved screenspace contact-shadows
• Improved soft-shadows

Release 0.6

• Improved SSS.
• Improved underwater effects (still WIP).
• Fix CSM.
• Add more shader options.
• Improved sun & clouds (using transmittance LUT).
• Fix water wave scale.
• Revised bloom exposure levels.