The source code of the Fancy Lighting mod for tModLoader

This mod is not endorsed by the creators of either Terraria or tModLoader.

EasyXnb is required to build this mod. The EasyXnb config file can be found in the Effects directory.

View the Mod.Call() API documentation for mod developers.

• Added Fancy Sky Light Shading
• Improved Fancy Atmosphere
• Replaced the sky color presets with new presets that affect both Fancy Atmosphere and Fancy Sky Light Colors
• Added tile entity normal maps and smooth lighting
• Improved the default tone mapping operator for full HDR rendering and renamed Neutral and Filmic to Natural and Vivid
• Added bright light synchronization for full HDR rendering
• Improved basic glow rendering (without increased accuracy enabled) and made it the default for all quality presets
• Made the Bicubic render mode a little brighter
• Improved enhanced light map blurring
• Improved normal maps rendering
• Improved Ambient Occlusion visual quality
• The setting to disable HDRR during bosses and events now affects Smooth Lighting as a whole
• Depth of field is no longer exclusive to full HDR rendering
• Adjusted overall brightness and contrast when using full HDR rendering
• Slightly increased the brightness of the background when using full HDR rendering
• Improved vibrance boost
• Tweaked the appearance of bloom
• All graphical effects now work on the main menu

• Created two new configs: Compatibility Settings and Developer Settings
• Some settings from the Preferences config have been moved to the new configs
• Added tooltip lines to settings that have a major effect on performance
• Made other improvements to settings tooltips
• Rearranged and renamed some settings
• Added a setting to toggle whether normal maps are rendered on non-solid tiles
• Adjusted the normal maps strength scale
• Changed the default normal maps strength to 5 (from 3)
• Changed the maximum normal maps strength to 10 (from 15)
• Increased the range of the gamma setting to 100–340 (from 140–300)
• Gamma can now be adjusted in increments of 5 (from 10)
• Changed the exposure setting to be logarithmic and increased its range
• Increased the default vibrance boost to 3 (from 2)
• Increased the max vibrance boost to 15 (from 10)
• Changed the bloom strength scale and increased its maximum value
• Increased the max sky brightness boost to 15 (from 10)
• Added a setting to disable frame timing optimizations used by the Fancy Lighting Engine
• Added a setting to disable dithering

• Rewrote and optimized all of the rendering code
• Fixed graphical glitches that occurred when the mod was disabled when tModLoader was launched and then later enabled
• Fixed bloom and depth of field blur radius not scaling with resolution
• Fixed a minor bug with Ambient Occlusion when using full HDR rendering
• Fixed screen flashing after saving configs when at high resolutions
• Added compatibility with screen flipping from sources other than the Gravitation buff
• Memory is now freed when disabling some features
• Made unloading more thorough
• Fixed a bug with the sky in the Savanna biome in Spirit Reforged that was caused by Fancy Atmosphere

• Mod.Call() now returns the exception object if an exception occurs (previously, null was returned)
• Added new constraints to the PostUpdateLightMap hook
• Removed the PreDrawSky hook
• Added the ModifyFancyAtmosphereColors hook
• Added the ModifyFancySkyLightShadingStrength hook