Serene Visuals (Vibrant Visuals)

- Animated skylight intensity. Produced more contrast from sunset to sunrise.

- Tweaked skylight color.

- Animated the ambient light color and brightness in caves (also affects skylight color at night).

- Improved sunlight/moonlight brightness and color at all times of day.

- Smoother transition from sunset to sunrise. Sky and clouds no longer become suddenly lit at sunrise.

- Improved ambient light and endflash color in the End biome.

- Added lighting settings for Swamp, cold biomes, and Lush caves.

- Fixed the color mismatches with sky color and sunrise/sunset lighting.

- Improved color combinations with sky color and clouds' surface color.

- Improved auto-exposure in nether biomes.

 

- Tweaked horizon blend height at all times of day.

- Tweaked sun glare shape and mie scattering intensity from sunset to sunrise.

- Tweaked sky color at all times of day.

- Improved sky color transitions from sunrise to sunset.

- Improved sky color of Desert, Cherry grove, Nether biomes, Swamp, and End biome.

- Added sky config for Taiga, Cherry Grove, and cold biomes.

- Added color grading settings for Cherry Grove, Taiga, Lush caves, and Jungle biome.

- Tweaked global color grading to be softer.

- Improved color grading of the Nether biomes, Desert, Pale garden, and End biome.

 

- Improved water wave and caustics.

- Improved sky reflection visibility on water.

- Added water settings for pale garden and lush cave.

- Improved underwater lighting.

- Improved water colors for general water, Swamp, and Desert biome.

- Volumetric Fog can now be rendered across all heights.

- Improved the fog color to blend better with sky color in all biomes.

- Removed forest and savanna fog.

- Lowered Volumetric Fog density when raining.

- Tweaked the distance of fog when it's raining for more foggy look.

- Improved Fog distance in nether biomes for better survival experiences.

 

- Adjusted clouds' surface color.

- Improved size of the sun and rotation.

- Removed custom moon texture.

- Improved opacity and color of rain.

- Set the custom AO intensity for oak leaves and birch leaves.

- Increased the mipmap level from 1 to 4.

- Fixed an issue where a lot of textures' alpha channel was not saved properly, causing them to glow.

> DEV'S NOTE: I will focus on PBR after this update.

- Added normalmaps option. This is still in early development, so many textures' look may be subject to change, and more blocks will be supported after this update.

> Vanilla+

- Added custom metallic material PBR and SSS.

> Heightmap

- Added support for more blocks and entities, items (swords), and all armors.

- Improved smooth material and metallic materials' PBR.

> Normalmaps(Default)

- Blocks that are not supported still have heightmaps. This will be fixed in the next version.

- Improved the SSS(Subsurface-Scattering) gradients or shape of shortgrass, deadbush, tall/short dry grass, tall/short fern, flowers, sand/redsand, and sugar cane.

- Significantly lowered the brightness of blocks that emit lights for better auto-exposure response and texture visibility.

- Added texture animations for copper torch and soul torch.

- Not important though, still water texture now uses .tga instead of vanilla .png and customized color.

- Set the custom color for all blocks.

- Tweaked colors softer and less intense.

- Added a license file.