🌿 Equinox RD v2.0 — Dynamic Environment Update

A major milestone for Equinox RD! This update introduces a complete overhaul of water rendering, dynamic weather effects, improved lighting across all dimensions, brand-new End visuals, iOS support, numerous bug fixes, and performance optimizations.

✨ New Features

📱 iOS Support

• Equinox RD now officially supports Minecraft Bedrock Edition on iOS.

🌌 Unique End Sky

• Added a completely redesigned custom End Sky.
• Features a cinematic space atmosphere with a massive black hole, enhanced stars, and a unique visual style exclusive to Equinox RD.

🌧️ Dynamic Rain Puddles

• Added organic, noise-based rain puddles.
• Dynamic sky reflections with Fresnel effects.
• Smooth wetness and gloss blending with terrain.

☁️ Real-Time Cloud Reflections

• Added volumetric cloud reflections on water.
• Improved water surface realism with custom wave normals.

🌱 Enhanced Plant Shadows

• Improved grass and crop shadow rendering.
• Reduced visual banding.
• More accurate ambient and root shadows for cross-model plants.

🌊 Reworked Water System

• Completely redesigned water wave generation.
• Waves are now locked to world block coordinates.
• Eliminates player-following water movement.

🌍 Dimension-Aware Color Processing

Visual adjustments now automatically adapt to:

• Overworld
• Rain
• Nether
• End

💎 Glowing Ores Support

• Added emissive block detection.
• Dedicated toggle for compatibility with Glowing Ores resource packs.

🌫️ Advanced Fog Controls

• Custom fog distance multiplier.
• Environment-aware blending.
• Global enable/disable option.

🛠️ Bug Fixes

🌧️ Rain Puddles

• Fixed puddles appearing on oceans.
• Fixed puddles rendering on stained glass.
• Prevented puddles from appearing on ceilings.
• Fixed puddles not generating correctly on grass blocks.

🔥 Nether Improvements

• Stabilized Nether lighting.
• Prevented excessive brightness using improved mathematical clamping.

🌋 Lava Rendering

• Fixed incorrect lava colors caused by ACES Film tonemapping.

🌊 Water

• Fixed water waves following the player.
• Fixed the pink water rendering issue.

🌅 Lighting

• Fixed sunset flickering.
• Improved smooth day-to-night transitions.

⚡ Performance

☁️ Volumetric Clouds

• Reduced planar cloud rendering layers to 2.
• Improved FPS while maintaining visual quality.
• Lower rendering cost with smoother cloud density.

❤️ Thank You

Thank you for supporting Equinox RD and helping shape the project through your feedback.

Enjoy Version 2.0 – Dynamic Environment Update!