✨ Zepholume Shaders V1.0.6 — Refined Light, Smoother Water

A focused update improving rendering accuracy, environmental lighting, and shader stability while preserving Zepholume's lightweight design.

Version 1.0.6 introduces important corrections to water rendering, hand illumination, and atmospheric behavior. This release focuses on making existing effects more consistent rather than adding expensive new graphical features.

🌊 Water Rendering Improvements

• Corrected vertex-to-fragment interpolation issues responsible for visible triangle-boundary discontinuities in water shading.
• Improved mathematical consistency across water surfaces and flowing-water geometry.
• Reduced shading discontinuities in GPU regression tests without changing the existing water animation or transparency settings.
• Preserved lightweight water rendering across quality profiles.

💡 Lighting Fixes

• Fixed missing lightmap handling in hand-rendering shader paths.
• Corrected a source-level issue that caused hands to remain excessively bright regardless of environmental illumination.
• Improved hand and held-item lighting response to block light and skylight.
• Strengthened lighting consistency across the Overworld, Nether, and End shader configurations.

🌫️ Atmospheric Refinements

• Refined fog calculations and atmospheric rendering behavior.
• Preserved the existing environmental colour treatment and lighting philosophy.
• Maintained Zepholume's balanced approach to atmosphere, contrast, and visual depth.

⚡ Performance & Stability

• Improved shader interpolation correctness without introducing additional rendering passes.
• Retained the lightweight GLSL 330 rendering architecture.
• Preserved all five quality profiles: Potato, Low, Balanced, High, and Ultra.
• Expanded regression coverage for water shading, hand lighting, camera calculations, and rendering consistency.

🛠️ Technical Validation

• 272 GLSL shader-stage checks passed.
• 420 shader-link checks passed.
• 630 portability test cases passed.
• Additional synthetic GPU rendering tests passed for water and hand-lighting corrections.

Note: These results reflect offline validation. Full in-game visual verification and gameplay FPS benchmarking remain incomplete. Some nighttime water reflections may still appear brighter than expected beneath overhead terrain.

Zepholume Shaders V1.0.6 continues refining the essentials: atmospheric lighting, expressive water, consistent rendering, and practical performance.

Better rendering. Less unnecessary complexity. More Minecraft.

File: Zepholume-Shaders-1.0.6.zip