Particle Rain

dropping the beta tag since all particles (except streaks) are using the customization system now, which was the original point of this update (and multiver) before i did all that other stuff.

• Added Minecraft 26.3 support
• fixed particle count not decreasing when a particle spawn is canceled by the Particle Group
• fixed blended particles being visible through objects in 26.1
• fixed blended particle corrupt rendering regression from beta 1
• fixed wind applying to particles with a wind strength of zero
• fixed particles not appearing on forge due to missing convention tags
• fixed haze effects breaking when viewed through spyglass or at low FOV (fix does not apply to zoom mods)
• fixed surface effects spawning inside blocks at negative coordinates due to a rounding error
• fixed storm weather particles spawning only when not stormy
• fixed dripstone particles not tinting with water/rain color
• fixed ripple texture resolution options not being visible
• fixed rain appearing in unloaded chunks
• fixed streaks floating over the edges of non-full blocks
• fixed texture related config options reloading resource before the config screen closes
• fixed always weather option
• fixed config screen flickering on 26.1+
• fixed particle config attempting to load the empty particle entries
• fixed particle collisions not accounting for velocity
• added random Y spawn offset to particles with surface spawn position
• added fade types to particle config
• added horizontal particle rotation type
• added heavy snow and rain during thunderstorms
• reduced distance fading falloff so particles are more visible at a distance
• tweaked rain and snow texturing
  • was previously split into 4 sprites, now is split into 16
  • particle size reduced to fit the new texel density
• ported mist and ripple effect to configurable horizontal particles
• mist after rain no longer spawns in plains biomes (its too overwhelming i dont like it there)
• tweaked spawn randomness such that particles with similar densities will spawn at the same time, allowing for composite effects (see horizontal & vertical fog)
• replaced dust texture with vanilla generic dust texture
• dust and shrubs can now spawn on coarse dirt
• Wind Improvements (ty: plunderpixels)
  • added WindLink compatibility, weather particles move with its wind when it is installed
  • particles from vanilla or other mods now take wind, with the wind strength options shown for them
  • snow can be drawn with WindLink's snowflake sprites, when its config asks for it
  • WindLink can ask for more snow and rain, and for bigger flakes and drops

overview of changes since v3.3.6:

• multiversion support including support for forge loaders
• customizable weather particles
• built-in config and particle editor
• resource packs can load their own weather effects
• weather ignores barriers and other configurable blocks
• various visual improvements to all effects including wind variance, distance fading, and new rotation styles
• puddles removed and expanded into their own mod

see full version history