Release 0.11

• Add full support for Distant Horizons. *
• Add custom "fancy" & "cubed" clouds.
• Improve floodfill +/volumetric lighting.
• faster floodfill
• Improved blur, bloom, water, SSAO, SSS, SSR.
• Fixed sign text.
• Fixed spidereyes/warden emission.
• Added TAA.
• Added depth-write POM.
• Added lightning flashes.
• Added blur aberration.
• Added darkness effect.
• Added geometry tesselation. *
• Added nether/end smoke.
• Added option to disable HCM albedo tinting.
• Added colored candle light option.
• Added world-curvature option **
• Added options to change light colors. ***
• Removed "legacy" DH compat.

* Currently requires a special Iris beta
** Does not currently support TAA.
*** Requires an external shader settings editor: https://editor.balintcsala.com/

Release 0.10

This update contains a ton of minor fixes/adjustments not listed.

• Improved overall lighting, fog, VL.
• Added bounced floodfill lighting for sunlight only.
• Added cloud shadows (thanks to Fayer3).
• Added screen-space reflections [WIP].
• Added distance-blur/DOF.
• Added initial support for Supplementaries mod.
• Added initial support for Distant Horizons mod.
• Added water blur.
• Added more RT shapes for Create mod.
• Added hard-coded-metal support for LabPBR materials.
• Added more tonemap options.
• Added world-time animation option (for fixed-time recording mods).
• Added initial water caustics (needs work).
• Added option for adjusting exposure offset.
• Added water TIR (off by default).
• Added support for rendering multiple water volumes (off by default, broken with latest AMD drivers).
• Added screen-space ambient occlusion.
• Added fog-shape option.
• Added option to enable/disable light-leak fix.
• Improved blending of stained glass.
• Improved glass tinting.
• Improved warer waves.
• Improved bloom.
• Improved SSS [WIP].
• Improved smooth-POM performance.
• Fixed LabPBR normals being decoded improperly.
• Made metals less dark.
• Softer POM shadows.
• Document mod support.

Release 0.9

• Fixed support for AMD GPUs.
• Fixed PhysicsMod snow normals.
• Fixed dynamic lighting for weather particles.
• Fixed block selection outline in the End.
• Fixed water surface/fog color.
• Fixed vanilla AO levels.
• Improved volumetric fog lighting.
• Improved rain puddles & added ripples.
• Improved temporal upscaling.
• Improved light colors (gamma fix).
• Improved soft-shadow filtering.
• Added RT shapes for beds, cocoa, wall signs, chests, candles, and more.
• Added 'colored' water option (no texture).
• Added autosizing for dynamic SSBO/images.
• Added emission brightness slider.
• Added rain & water opacity sliders.
• Added pixelated water/puddles option.
• Added area lights (WIP).
• Added sky reflections.
• Added screen-space refraction.
• Added LPV for basic lighting, dynamic ambient, and fog.
• Added bloom.
• Added post-processing brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma sliders.
• Added rounded edges for integrated entity normals.
• Disabled player shadow in spectator mode.
• Removed dynamic vertex-based lighting.

• Added initial support for Macaws Lights & Lamps, Create, and Create-Deco.

Release 0.8

• Revised voxelization atomics to improve performance & reduce flickering.
• Block-light casters now also occlude lighting.
• Separated RT light-tinting modes: basic [default] & fancy.
• Improved temporal filtering/upscaling.
• Improved volumetric lighting.
• Improved lighting for metal materials.
• Improved biasing for cascaded shadow mapping + PCF filtering.
• Improved attenuation factor for block-lighting.
• Improved subsurface scattering.
• Added support for "light" blocks.
• Added optional support for specular lighting.
• Added custom error messages for unsupported OF/iris versions. (big thanks to Balint)
• Added threshold option for "sharp" parallax.
• Added RT shapes for lantern, cauldron, candle-cake.
• Added rain wetness & material porosity options.
• Added rain puddles & ripples option.
• Added optional water waves.
• Added parallax support for transparent blocks, entities, hand-held stuff.
• Added optional player shadows for RT block-lighting.
• Added block-light emission/trace options for glow berry vines, nether portals.
• Added post-processing saturation option.
• Added support for integrated/generated normal maps.
• Added initial support for intergated PBR on dropped items/blocks.
• Added support for integrated/LabPBR material AO.
• Added directional lightmap option.
• Fixed white glowing edges around light emitting blocks.
• Fixed parallax normal using wrong texcoord.
• Fixed parallax not working with normals disabled.
• Fixed an issue with entity normals.
• Fixed an issue with sign text.
• Fixed incorrect internal buffer formats for block-light.
• Fixed internal voxel frustum culling.
• Fixed misc issues with ambient occlusion.
• Fixed rendering of block selection, leashes, & fishing lines.
• Fixed banner & particle lighting issue.
• Fixed hand-light noise/brightness.
• Fixed support for PhysicsMod ocean waves (+foam).
• Fixed skewing of POM on non-square surfaces.
• Fixed shadow-only not working in Nether/End.
• Fixed cascaded shadow SSS.
• Fixed seams between blocks with POM enabled.
• Fixed cloud brightness.
• Removed 'Up Normals' option.

Release 0.7

• Added support for normal maps (OldPBR or LabPBR).
• Added support for POM (parallax occlusion mapping).
• Added support for emission (hard-coded or LabPbr).
• Added directional light sources (ie furnace, jack-o-lantern, etc).
• Added initial support for PhysicsMod snow.
• Added dynamic lighting for activator/detector/powered rails.
• Added volumetric lighting/fog.
• Improved temporal upscaling filter for block-light shadows.
• Improved compatibility with some older devices (Intel).
• Improved shadow map biasing (/reduced acne).
• Improved ambient lighting for ray-traced block-lighting.
• Fixed tracing of "invisible" walls.
• Fixed beacon-beam lighting.
• Revised option screens.

* For best results, use the latest Iris 1.6.0 beta 3 from the Iris discord.

* This release includes an experimental option for ray-tracing block-lighting with volumetric fog. This is very performance heavy and will likely be replaced with a simplified version in the next release, or removed entirely.

Release 0.6

• Fixed "shadow blur" feature.
• Fixed brightness of light emitting blocks/entities.
• Fixed shadow contacts on hand-held lights.
• Fixed "upward normals" option for plants.
• Fixed "glowing" feature for dynamic lights.
• Fixed occasional flickering on light positions.
• Fixed nether/end support.
• Added support for half & quarter resolution ray-tracing.
• Added support for PhsyicsMod ocean & ripples.
• Added option for adjusting strength of light-tinting by stained glass (and similar) blocks.
• Added shapes for ray-tracing pistons, lightning rods, unlit campfire, bell, sculk sensor, sculk shrieker, snow layers, [more].
• Added lighting for weather particles.
• Added cheap SSS effect for certain blocks (snow, emerald, diamond, amethyst) & dyanmic lights.
• Added option for disabling RT for lava & redstone blocks.
• Added dithering for sky and fog to reduce color banding.
• Added option for adjusting sun rotation angle.
• Added support for dynamic lighting on clouds.
• Improved shadow bias handling (reduced shadow acne).
• Improved method used for "waving plants".
• Revised offset of hand-held lights.
• Revised color of sea pickle, glow lichen lights.
• Switched to Reinhard tonemap (modified by Jodie) for more neutral lighting.
• Separated day/night brightness options for overworld.
• Changed "directional lighting" to be an adjustable slider.
• Increased default settings for dynamic lighting.
• Cleaned up option screens.

• This release works best with Iris 1.6 beta 2: Shrimple Edition (attached)!

Release 0.5

• Added many more shapes for ray-traced lighting.
• Added glass-tinting for ray-traced blocklight.
• Added optional RT temporal blending (splits lighting over multiple frames).
• Added dynamic lighting for entities (blaze, magma cube, end crystal).
• Added per-world brightness settings.
• Improved tracing method (no more leaking).
• Fixed fog color/blending issues.

Release 0.4

• Added optional ray-traced shadows for dynamic block-lighting.
• Emitters no longer self-colored by their light.
• Add "clear-fix" option under debug menu for Iris 1.6 beta 2 users.

Release 0.3

• Added shader-based lighting for in-hand blocks/items.
• Fix lights from transparent blocks (such as nether portals).
• Add entity flash color from damage.

Release 0.2

• Add frustum-culling for dynamic lighting to reduce total count and improve performance.