Hearthmist Shaders

Hearthmist Shaders 0.2.4

First CurseForge release under the Hearthmist name.

Visuals

• Soft dynamic sun and moon shadows, golden sunsets, and adjustable moonlight.
• Atmospheric fog for lowlands, dawn, rain, water, lava, and powder snow.
• Water ripples, sky reflections, depth-based transparency, and sun highlights.
• Bloom, screen-space sun rays, contact shading, filmic color grading, and optional grain.
• Warm torches and visible illumination from held light-emitting items.

Vegetation

• Separate wind animation for grass, flowers, crops, and tree leaves.
• Anchored roots and continuous bending across two-block plants.
• Wind becomes stronger during rain; speed and per-material strength are configurable.
• Matching vegetation deformation in the shadow pass.

Compatibility and validation

• Iris and OptiFine shader loaders.
• Minecraft Java 1.17.1 and newer.
• Includes Low, Balanced, and Cinematic presets.
• Fixed OptiFine 1.21.11 dimension fallback and special terrain attribute binding.
• Compiled and linked 340 shader-program combinations and passed automated OpenGL render checks.