Cinematic Realism Patch Notes

This pack variant was patched for a muted trailer-grade look on stable RenderDragon / Vibrant Visuals.

Main changes

• Switched key color grading profiles from generic to aces.
• Reduced saturation and highlight energy to keep bloom restrained.
• Thickened sunrise horizon blending and shifted zenith blues toward steel/teal.
• Lowered ambient and sky intensity to deepen soft-shadow mood.
• Increased overworld haze slightly and pushed cave fog darker/denser.
• Reworked ocean, cold ocean, deep ocean, river, deep dark, and dripstone water for colder, heavier response.
• Added biome minecraft:water_appearance colors for major water biomes.
• Applied a wet-stone MER/MERS pass by lowering roughness and keeping metalness near zero.

Primary edited files

• color_grading/*.json
• lighting/*.json
• atmospherics/*.json
• fogs/*.json
• water/*.json
• biomes/*.client_biome.json
• pbr/global.json
• selected textures/blocks/*_mer.png and *_mers.png for stone families