🌩️ Severity: Extreme Weather Simulation — 3.0.0V

Major Update — Experimental Rendering System

Severity 3.0.0V marks a new technological milestone for the addon, introducing an experimental shader-based rendering system and laying the groundwork for more advanced atmospheric visuals in Minecraft Bedrock Edition.

🌪️ New Features

• Experimental Volumetric Rendering: Introduction of a shader-based rendering prototype designed to explore volumetric cloud effects.

• Severity Shader Kit: New development toolkit containing GLSL shader code, material patching utilities, and reference files for further rendering experiments.

• Dual Rendering System: Adds an experimental choice between the existing particle-based cloud system and the volumetric shader mode.

• Supercell Visual Prototype: Introduces procedural cloud structures designed to represent large rotating storm systems.

• Distant Tornado Visual Prototype: Adds an experimental shader-generated tornado funnel effect.

• Requires Better Renderdragon or an Minecraft Patch for the visuals to work.

⚙️ Rendering Improvements

• New shader overlay architecture for atmospheric effects.

• Experimental modifications to the sky rendering material.

• Initial groundwork for more advanced cloud depth, density, and storm visuals.

• Continued development toward integrating more sophisticated rendering techniques into Severity.

🧪 Experimental Status

The volumetric rendering system is still experimental and may require a compatible modified RenderDragon environment.

• Compatibility may vary depending on the Minecraft version and rendering backend.

• Visual artifacts and overlapping cloud layers may occur.

• Performance and stability require further testing.

• The shader prototype does not yet replace the entire weather simulation system.

🔧 Development Focus

• Refining the shader integration.

• Eliminating duplicate cloud layers.

• Improving compatibility and rendering stability.

• Investigating performance during large storm events.

• Exploring future integration between shader effects and Severity's dynamic weather simulation.

🌩️ What's Next?

Severity's development continues toward more advanced atmospheric rendering, more convincing supercell visuals, and a deeper integration between weather simulation and experimental volumetric effects.

Severity 3.0.0V — A new generation of extreme weather simulation for Minecraft Bedrock Edition.