• Improved refractions performance and quality
• Improved clouds shape and performance
• Improved sun/moon rendering with proper atmosphere absorption
• Improved and fixed water fog
• Improved water waves
• Set default sun/moon size multiplier to 2x
• Set default refractions to "Approximation"
• Fixed sign text rendering on 26.x versions
• Fixed glowing spider/enderman eyes on latest versions
• Fixed lightning bolts not rendering correctly
• Fixed refractions on block selection outline
• Fixed color clipping issues
• Fixed noise from water waves at grazing angles
• Cleaned old bits of code to improve readability

• Removed Global Illumination (deprecated)
• Added fog filter setting
• Added tilted weather angle setting
• Added water waves intensity setting
• Improved overall performances
• Improved water fog and water waves
• Improved GTAO quality
• Fixed TAA clipping and set default TAA strength to 0.95x
• Fixed out of shadowmap bounds specular for translucents
• Fixed translucents blending with fog
• Fixed enchantment glint blending
• Various QOL fixes / improvements

• Added AO strength, sunlight strength and skylight strength settings
• Improved water waves and water reflections filtering
• Improved clouds performance
• Cleaned code

• Added depth visualization setting
• Added water speed setting
• Added separate menus for rain puddles and animation settings
• Added settings for swinging lanterns and waving plants speed
• Added camera-dependent rotation to lens flares for realism
• Disabled POM by default
• Moved block ID mappings to a separate .glsl file
• Improved water visuals and performance
• Improved overall performance
• Improved lighting in The End
• Fixed transparent water issue for NVIDIA GPUs
• Fixed stars not being affected by atmosphere/clouds absorption
• Tweaked shading for billboard plants

• Added Underwater Bloom
• Re-added Fog filter
• Fixed Clouds seams
• Fixed specular lighting on translucents
• Improved Reflections and Refractions handling
• Small optimizations

• Fixed Voxy compile errors
• Fixed entities rendering on 26.x versions
• Improved plants shading

• Considerable performance improvements
• Fixed Optifine lighting flickering issues
• Fixed Mesa Linux incompatibility issues
• Fixed Clouds rendering order
• Fixed Voxy/DH depth ordering issues
• Fixed SSS and Contact Shadows issues with Voxy/DH
• Improved Ambient Occlusion performance and filtering
• Improved Global Illumination
• Improved Depth of Field
• Improved sky light evaluation
• Improved Shadows sampling

• Performance improvements
• Fixed DH translucent shadows
• Fixed Voxy downscaled rendering
• Fixed Fog overwriting translucents
• Fixed GI denoising
• Cleaned code

• Fixed Contact Shadows
• Updated copyright year
• Cleaned code

• Improved GI
• Improved Depth of Field quality (!)
• Tweaked Exposure levels
• Tweaked Water waves
• Fixed broken GI from v1.8.5
• Fixed sky light integrations (darker shadows)
• Fixed Depth of Field
• Fixed Reflections accumulation

• Added Voxy support
• Added Contact Shadows
• Added 1.20+ blocks to hardcoded SSS
• Tweaked default color grading
• Fixed and improved DH support
• Massively cleaned code

• Improved performance (lower fog quality)
• Improved Sun / Moon rendering (less blinding)
• Improved weather (rain, snow) lighting
• Increased exposure
• Set sky illuminance to monochrome (no blue tint)
• Fixed Distant Horizons fog
• Fixed AO temporal lag
• Fixed enchantment glint showing through player hand
• Fixed weather bug (introduced in v1.8.4)

• Added Depth Of Field chromatic aberration setting
• Improved Water Fog and sky Refractions
• Tweaked High profile
• Fixed color clipping around sun
• Fixed sky not being refracted
• Cleaned code

• Added quality profiles (Potato, Light, Medium, High, Ultra, Render)
• Fixed issues on Mesa drivers (GI not working, broken POM, night lighting)
• Cleaned code

• Added Lens Flares
• Added Glare (star-shaped)
• Added Raytraced and Approximation Refractions
• Improved performance
• Improved Refractions
• Improved settings menu
• Cleaned code

• General performance improvements
• Set default rendering scale to 1.0x
• Tweaked settings menu look
• Removed Refractions Steps option
• Improved raytracer accuracy
• Improved Fog visuals and performance
• Improved Reflections filtering to minimize ghosting
• Improved Clouds filtering to minimize ghosting
• Improved Exposure to be more stable
• Improved folder structure
• Decreased default TAA strength
• Increased default Aerial Perspective density
• Fixed GI denoising
• Fixed Aerial Perspective and Fog filtering on DH fragments
• Fixed skylight leak indoors
• Fixed bent normals on AO
• Cleaned code

• Fixed Clouds cutoff issue
• Fixed issues with À-Trous filter
• Added setting to display entities in Render mode
• Removed forced color grading LUT from Cel Shading option
• Cleaned folder structure and removed unused textures
• Cleaned code

• Removed Global Illumination scale option
• Fixed Histogram debug view
• Fixed color precision issues
• Fixed crashes on Mesa Linux
• Improved Bloom
• Improved Global Illumination
• Improved Clouds performance
• Improved Color Grading and Exposure

• Fixed Clouds jittering
• Fixed crash with GI on Mesa Linux
• Added temporal filtering to Reflections (less noise)
• Improved Bloom
• Improved Exposure (more stable)
• Improved performance (using compute shaders)
• Changed default TAA strength (0.8 -> 0.7)
• Cleaned code
• Updated copyright

- Added support for Mesa Linux

• Added flickering to fire-powered light sources
• Added a height falloff to Aerial Perspective
• Improved Clouds shape (replaced second layer cirrostratus clouds by cirrocumulus)
• Improved Water Waves and Caustics
• Improved Clouds temporal filter
• Cleaned code

• Added biome-specific weather (sandstorms, better snow, etc...)
• Added rain ripples
• Added parallax mapping to Water settings for it
• Added clouds map fallback to reflections
• Added end crystal and end crystal beam emission
• Improved Water Caustics and enabled them by default
• Improved Weather Tilt and added a setting for it
• Improved Aerial Perspective and added a density setting for it
• Improved Nether and End dimensions fog greatly
• Improved the overall atmospherics (Clouds, Atmosphere, Fog)
• Improved Shadows filtering
• Increased Bloom strength
• Decreased default TAA strength
• Fixed Hammon diffuse
• Fixed Specular highlights being occluded by shadows on water
• Fixed Ambient Occlusion filtering
• Cleaned code

• Improved Exposure (fixed overblown look)
• Improved lower Atmosphere
• Improved performance
• Fixed Reflections scaling
• Cleaned code

• Added Dynamic Handlight to Iris
• Improved Refractions
• Improved Water Caustics performance and visuals
• Improved TAA with tonemapping and yCoCg clipping
• Improved Rain's appearance
• Improved Stars (better visual quality)
• Added "Stars Scale" settings in Atmospherics menu
• Fixed Clouds ghosting and jittering
• Small performance improvements
• Cleaned code

• Fixed TAA applying on sky and hiding stars
• Fixed Shadows precision issue on player hand
• Fixed selection outline
• Fixed Exposure on UI elements (hitboxes)
• Fixed Color Palettes causing black pixels
• Tweaked Hardcoded SSS and Water settings
• Tweaked Lowlight Desaturation and Exposure to work better during the night
• Cleaned code

• Added Color Palettes in "Post-Processing" menu (10 color palettes to pick from)
• Improved 8-Bits Filter
• Re-arranged "Post-Processing" menu

• Fixed POM lines issue on AMD
• Fixed POM applying on fully transparent pixels
• Fixed Clouds overlapping issue
• Fixed Clouds reflections
• Fixed enchantment glint on hand
• Fixed GI on NVIDIA
• Fixed AO temporal filter
• Fixed skylight when AO is disabled
• Fixed hardcoded nether portal
• Improved ambient lighting
• Improved Fog
• Improved TAA on player hand
• Improved Clouds
• Added Chinese translations thanks to Ruri and OrzMiku

• Fixed POM thin lines bugs (thanks to sixthsurge)
• Improved Volumetric Fog (added distance falloff to fade at the render distance)
• Improved Water Waves (better RNG, softer look)
• Increased lighting value range
• Increased minimum Exposure (outdoors are brighter now)
• Stopped supporting Minecraft version 1.17

• Added Distant Horizons (DH) support
• Added Aerial Perspective toggle setting in Air Fog menu
• Improved Volumetric Fog
• Improved Clouds accumulation
• Improved Aerial Perspective to work better indoors
• Fixed AO accumulation on player hand
• Fixed metallic Reflections not working with GI

• Greatly improved Water Fog
• Improved TAA
• Improved 8-bits Filter
• Fixed glass lighting
• Fixed indoors Subsurface Scattering (SSS)
• Fixed bright particles issue (white squares on screen)
• Fixed enchantment glints not showing properly
• Fixed water Reflections
• Tweaked Directional Lightmaps to be softer

• Massively revamped "Lighting" settings menu (cleaner)
• Fixed refractions
• Fixed AO temporal filtering (capped to 64 frames)
• Fixed TAA yCoCg conversions (big improvement)
• Tweaked maximum Exposure
• Cleaned code

• Greatly improved TAA to reduce flickering
• Improved Water Waves
• Handling TAA jittering in space conversions
• Fixed Refractions missed intersections
• Fixed ray tracing blue noise jittering
• Tweaked maximum Exposure
• Tweaked default emissive intensity
• Disabled reflections reprojection (was causing the reflections to be 1 frame behind)
• Cleaned code

• Greatly improved Bloom
• Slightly improved performance
• Fixed issue with Ambient Occlusion accumulation
• Fixed underwater Reflections
• Fixed and improved Water Caustics
• Improved Water Waves
• Cleaned code

• Fixed issue with blocker search for SSS
• Fixed short grass block name in block.properties for 1.20.3 and above
• Fixed clouds history clearing being discarded
• Improved waving leaves
• Set default sharpening strength to 1.0

• Added render distance for POM (drastic performance improvement)
• Added 'GTAO' to AO Type setting description
• Removed POM dithering
• Improved POM depth write
• Improved GTAO
• Improved AO temporal stability
• Improved GI denoiser
• Fixed POM depth write on Nvidia
• Fixed skylight fog issue

• Added aerial perspective (distant fog)
• Improved night camera exposure
• Improved starfield
• Fixed selection box not affected by refraction
• Fixed Cel Shading
• Fixed vertex animations during the rain

• Improved exposure to work better indoors
• Tweaked colour grading to look less saturated
• Fixed water being blurred by temporal filtering on reflections
• Cleaned code

• Fixed issue with refractions
• Tweaked hardcoded emissives
• Tweaked SSS light leaking fix

• Performance improvements
• Improved skylight clarity
• Tweaked exposure to work better indoors
• Fixed indoors SSS

• Performance improvements
• Fixed SSAO
• Fixed temporal accumulation
• Tweaked AgX Punchy Look
• Tweaked Nether fog
• Cleaned code

• Added AgX display transform and set it as default
• Added compression LMT to ACES display transform
• Fixed hand depth checks
• Minimized refractions artifacts
• Minor optimizations
• Cleaned code

• Fixed translucents handling
• Fixed AO
• Tweaked settings

• Fixed Global Illumination
• Improved Global Illumination
• Fixed translucent blocks not appearing when GI is ON
• Fixed AO not applying
• Cleaned code

• Fixed underwater light being cut off
• Improved performance
• Improved water
• Improved ambient occlusion
• Cleaned code

• Improved water
• Tweaked hardcoded SSS blocks
• Tweaked Bloom
• Tweaked Shadows

• Fixed MAJOR performance issue
• Added farmlands to hardcoded SSS blocks
• Cleaned code

• Fixed Fresnel equations
• Fixed TIR
• Fixed issue with refractions
• Added clay blocks to hardcoded SSS blocks

• Added POM shadowing option
• Added POM depth write option
• Improved shadows' noise distribution
• Improved clouds' noise distribution
• Improved GTAO's noise distribution
• Improved TAA
• Improved approximation fog
• Fixed Manual Exposure
• Set sun's path rotation to 40°
• Cleaned code

• Greatly improved performance
• Added self-shadowing for smooth POM
• Fixed TAA NaNs issue
• Tweaked shadows
• Fixed shadows not working properly for translucents
• Tweaked clouds
• Tweaked and optimized fog

• Added Cel Shading option in the "Post-Processing" menu
• Tweaked 8-Bits Filter
• Improved Global Illumination's denoiser

• Fixed Global Illumination
• Added "Emissive Intensity" in Lighting settings to control blocklight intensity
• Re-arranged Camera settings menus
• Cleaned code

• Fixed color grading settings (contrast, saturation, etc...)
• Increased clouds powder effect
• Added 8-bits filter option in Camera settings
• Cleaned code

[DISCLAIMER] GI will not work properly on this version.

• Improved performance
• Added TAA to gbuffers_basic
• Improved refractions absorption
• Improved reflections
• Fixed shadow bounds SSS issue
• Fixed atmosphere color banding issue

[DISCLAIMER] GI will not work properly on this version.

• Increased emissive intensity
• Fixed rain puddles not showing
• Fixed depth of field scaling issue
• Fixed contrast NaNs issue
• Cleaned code

[DISCLAIMER] GI will not work properly on this version.

• Fixed DOF
• Fixed exposure issue causing everything to be underexposed
• Fixed black particles
• Fixed translucents shading
• Fixed CTM flickering bug
• Performance improvements
• Added debug menu

[DISCLAIMER] GI will not work properly on this version.

• Fixed clouds shadows throwing errors
• Better waving plants animations
• Performance improvements (better buffer management, optimizations)
• Cleaned code

[DISCLAIMER] GI will not work properly on this version.

• Added TAAU (resolution control)
• Performance improvements
• Cleaned code

[DISCLAIMER] GI will not work properly on this version.

• Fixed GI's sky contribution
• Tweaked clouds
• Small performance improvements

• Fixed hardcoded SSS bug
• Considerable performance improvements
• Small tweaks

• Fixed enchant glint not working well
• Fixed light source NaNs on Nvidia
• Optimized performance

• Re-arranged "Terrain" and "Atmospherics" menus:

  • Added POM menu in the Terrain section
  • Added Atmosphere, Fog, and Stars settings menus in the Atmospherics section
  • Added settings to customize stars
  • Added more settings to customize first and second clouds layers
  • Added setting to control clouds wind speed

• Optimized performance

• Set reflections rendering scale to 0.75x by default
• Increased ambient lighting in the Nether
• Improved clouds shape and filtering

• Added End dimension support
• Added nether portal and soul fire blocks to hardcoded light emitters
• [Hotfix] fixed glowing particles for Nether dimension
• Increased stars brightness

• Fixed glowing particles
• Increased emissive intensity
• Improved bloom

• Improved water fog and air fog
• Added fog to the Nether
• Fixed rain puddles appearing in water
• Fixed broken SSS in water
• Optimized / cleaned code

• [Hotfix] fixed NaNs on Nvidia
• [Hotfix] fixed specular lighting
• Added setting to enable / disable waving plants (in "Terrain" menu)
• Fixed pathtracing emission

• Added skylight falloff to plants wind animation
• Fixed issues with refractions and specular
• Improved weather
• Improved bloom (doesn't flicker when standing still anymore)
• Added cactus to hardcoded SSS
• Added directional lightmapping to skylight

• Cleaned and fixed clouds code
• Improved Bloom tiles
• Switched old Purkinje approximation to scotopic vision approximation
• Added spherical harmonics sky lighting
• Fixed issues with endermen / spiders eyes
• Cleaned code

• Fixed issues with NaNs on Nvidia
• Fixed issues with rendering on Optifine
• Fixed light leaking with Global Illumination
• Improved particle rendering

• [Hotfix] fixed render mode
• Fixed water caustics
• Fixed weather blending
• Improved clouds
• Fixed water octaves setting

• Added temporal filtering on Reflections
• Increased upper clouds density
• Improved particles rendering
• Fixed indoors reflections
• Fixed smooth POM

• Massively cleaned the code
• Fixed particles being black
• Fixed Lowlight Desaturation (Purkinje effect)
• Tweaked ACES tonemapping
• Fixes specular NaNs
• Improved weather atmospherics (fog, clouds, etc...)
• Fixed clouds shadows not working on atmospheric / water fog

• Improved water waves & water fog
• Cleaned code (re-arranged buffer management)
• Fixed SSS
• Optimizations

• Improved and re-wrote Screen Space Path Tracing
• Improved LabPBR material support
• Fixed NaNs and issues with translucent blocks
• Renamed "Purkinje" to "Lowlight Desaturation" in color grading settings
• Several optimizations
• Cleaned code
• Referenced code bibliography

• Improved fog falloff
• Improved weather
• Added block selection box
• Tweaked color grading
• Added hardcoded SSS to more blocks (hay, dirt, grass, vines, sand)
• Optimizations

• Improved clouds filtering
• Fixed water caustics
• Tweaked ACES tone mapping
• Added SSS to grass & dirt

• Improved clouds (fixed noise texture generation issues)
• Improved water (switched to gerstner waves, tweaked scattering coefficients)
• Increased block light intensity
• Reduced bloom intensity

• Fixed LUTs

• Improved clouds
• Fixed moon NaN on newer drivers

• Fixed compatibility for AMD drivers above 22.5.1
• Increased emissiveness for path traced lighting

• Fixed temporal accumulation
• Added "DOF Samples" setting
• Tweaked license
• Tweaked clouds settings
• Moved "Purkinje" setting to Color Grading menu
• Code optimizations

• Tweaked cloud noise texture
• Fixed LUT clipping
• Reduced bloom intensity
• Cleaned code

• Fixed LUT related issues
• Added hardcoded SSS to snow blocks
• Tweaked histogram exposure
• Tweaked sky indirect lighting
• Optimized Bloom
• Improved Depth of Field

• Fixed NaNs caused by specular lighting on Nvidia
• Tweaked and optimized bloom
• Improved data management
• Enabled steep POM by default
• Improved clouds filtering
• Added chinese translation thanks to xZhongjie#9918