Crystal Shaders 2.1 — Pizzazz Pass

✨ New Features

• Crystal Motes: Added drifting golden and green fireflies at dusk and nighttime, with faint golden pollen during the day.
• Crystal Streaks: Added subtle anamorphic light streaks trailing from bright light sources.
• Expanded Cloud Customization: Added new settings for cloud height, thickness, fading, and boxy geometry.
• Improved Cloud Appearance: Added smooth depth fading and customizable white-facing cloud surfaces.
• Enhanced End Sky: Improved Milky Way visibility and atmospheric detail.

☁️ Cloud Improvements

• Story Mode clouds now support the Spices Up Clouds resource pack's visual style.
• Added configurable cloud height and face fading.
• Added box-shaped cloud geometry with flat tops, bottoms, and vertical walls.
• Reworked depth fading for smoother cloud transparency.
• Added configurable white-facing cloud surfaces.

🌌 Sky & Atmospheric Improvements

• Increased Milky Way visibility and brightness.
• Improved nebula and galactic dust detail.
• Reworked Milky Way noise to eliminate artificial lattice patterns and straight edges.
• Improved galactic dust lanes and colour variation.
• Made the Milky Way appear as one continuous band.
• Improved the End's galactic visibility.

☀️ Sun, Moon & End Improvements

• Reworked the sun with realistic limb darkening and smoothly animated surface granulation.
• Replaced pixelated solar rays and rainbow effects with a smoother, more detailed solar corona.
• Improved the moon's glow and removed its rainbow corona.
• Fixed incorrect moon phase rendering.
• Fixed reversed waxing and waning moon phases.
• Fixed the moon rendering upside down.
• Completely rebuilt the End black hole with a dark cube, violet photon-ring glow, turbulent accretion disk, Doppler colour shifting, and gravitational lensing.

⚡ Performance Optimizations

• Optimized shadow filtering with early-out sampling, reducing unnecessary shadow calculations.
• Optimized TAA depth calculations.
• Reduced redundant calculations in volumetric godrays.
• Optimized water and screen-space reflection raymarching.
• Optimized cloud raymarching.
• Reduced unnecessary noise sampling in Crystal Motes.
• No intended visual compromises from the performance optimizations.

🛠️ Bug Fixes & Adjustments

• Fixed screen-space grain caused by Overworld and Nether light motes.
• Reworked light motes into smoother, larger, drifting atmospheric fields.
• Removed the experimental Crystal Lava procedural texture and restored original lava shading.
• Improved atmospheric consistency across the Overworld, Nether, and End.

⚙️ Compatibility & Settings

• Added new Crystal Signature Look customization options.
• Existing setting defaults remain unchanged.
• Existing visual presets retain their previous default configurations.

Note: This build has many bugs that haven't been fixed yet