🌌 Lumina Shader Lite v1.2.5

This update improves the sky, emissive lighting, visual customization, and stability while preserving Lumina Shader Lite’s lightweight design and performance-first philosophy. ✨

✨ Added

🌠 Milky Way Brightness

• Added a new Milky Way Brightness setting under Environment & Sky.
• Available levels: OFF, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, 125%, and 150%.
• The default value is 100%, preserving the original appearance.
• Selecting OFF removes the Milky Way calculations from both the sky and reflection shaders, providing a small performance improvement.

🌋 Lava Brightness

• Added an independent control for adjusting lava brightness.
• Players can now reduce or increase lava intensity without changing other emissive materials.

🎨 Visual Improvements

• ☀️ The daytime horizon and distant atmospheric fog now use a cleaner, more natural sky-blue tone.
• 🌌 The Milky Way now follows the movement of the night sky correctly.
• 🔭 Improved the continuity of the Milky Way’s procedural pattern to prevent visible seams.
• 🌧️ Corrected the middle-sky coloration during heavy rain when using the Heavy & Colder weather style.
• 🌋 Improved the balance of lava emission and bloom.

🛠️ Fixed

• Prevented large lava surfaces from overexposing the image and washing the screen out to white.
• Limited lava emission before it enters the Bloom pass.
• Added a safety limit to the Bloom input to control extreme emissive sources.
• Fixed an inherited bug that used the horizon rain color for the middle portion of the sky.
• Applied the rainy-weather color correction both with and without SPECIAL_BIOME_WEATHER.
• Removed the spherical-coordinate seam from the Milky Way.
• Corrected the Milky Way’s celestial orientation so it moves naturally with the night sky.

⚡ Optimized

• Reduced the number of procedural noise calculations used by the Milky Way.
• The Milky Way continues to use no additional textures, ray marching, or expensive volumetric effects.
• Disabling the Milky Way completely excludes its calculations from the compiled sky and reflection shaders.
• The default 100% setting preserves the intended appearance and Lumina Shader Lite’s performance-focused identity.

✅ Validation

• Validated shader references and includes.
• Verified every conditional path used by the new options.
• Validated the settings menu and every available value.
• Verified distribution-package integrity and source parity.
• Confirmed that the final ZIP contains 397 files.
• Confirmed that no unnecessary macOS metadata, including .DS_Store, is present.

💙 Thank you for using Lumina Shader Lite! Enjoy brighter skies, better lighting, improved customization, and smooth performance.