Nexus Unbound

**2.0.0 - 2026-09-22** **What's added ✨:** - Added Gen3 volumetric effects - Added improved volumetric clouds - Added cloud self-shadowing and light absorption - Added Gen3 volumetrics settings **What's improved ✨:** - Improved volumetric lighting - Improved atmospheric scattering - Improved volumetric fog - Improved weather and volumetric interaction - Improved weather-based volumetric calculations **Others ✨:** - Kept existing lighting, PBR, shadows, water, sky and post-processing systems -COMPLETLY Revorked end (Solas style) - Cleaned up shader includes and integrations - General shader and atmospheric improvements

Version 1.2.3 took a little longer to make than expected, but I'm a solo dev, so sorry for it! **Now, here's what changed ✨:** -**2nd gen volumetrics and water reflections/effects** -**More stable TAA, better lighting quality on higher presets** -**Now, it's more optimized** Basicly, this is all, but it was hard to make!

Finally, a very good version of the shaderpack, 1.2.2, here's the changes: ## 1.2.2 — Tester Polish Pass - Removed the temporary screen-space rain fallback - Rebuilt rain as dense procedural filaments inside the real weather geometry - Disabled projection jitter to stop whole-screen trembling while keeping TAA history rejection - Added stronger End star atmosphere, subtle void haze and light streaks - Added starfield rendering for End portals and End gateways - Smoothed cloud density generation and raised default cloud coverage - Brightened Nether lighting while keeping biome-tinted warm, warped and basalt-like fog - Added more realistic Nether distance mist and lava-local haze - Made underwater atmosphere clearer, less foggy and more depth-based - Rejected water/reflection hits from water and translucent surfaces - Reduced cave-water reflection strength further - Added subtle stable block-lighting variation for less flat block rendering - Smoothed darker Overworld night transition and reduced harsh night ambient shifts

**⚠️ Not tested yet!** It's 1.2.1, so here is waht changed: - Removed the placeholder screen-space rain effect - Restored true world-space Minecraft weather geometry - Added a dedicated premultiplied weather buffer - Added detailed distance-faded, textured and animated rain filaments - Made world depth and roofs naturally occlude precipitation - Disabled precipitation while the camera is underwater - Replaced vanilla block clouds with raymarched volumetric cloud layers - Added multi-octave 3D cloud density, erosion and vertical shaping - Added internal cloud light absorption and storm-darkened cloud shading - Added cloud coverage, density and quality configuration - Added cloud-transmittance shadows to direct sunlight - Rebuilt volumetric fog with height density, optical depth and transmittance - Added shadow-map-aware sunlight scattering inside fog - Added world-space raindrop impact ripples to water - Added TAA weather rejection to prevent rain ghost trails - Preserved LOW through EXTREME profiles and optional 8K shadow maps - Fixed the Iris/OptiFine blend parser crash by supplying all four blend factors - Added blend-property validation to the build script - Optimized cloud shadow density sampling without removing cloud layers - Reused volumetric shadow visibility across adjacent high-quality fog samples - Skipped cloud-shadow and rain-ripple work when it cannot affect the image - Reduced the weather buffer to bandwidth-efficient RGBA8 - Added dense procedural rain streak fallback so storms are visible across the whole view - Reduced sky-view performance cost by shortening cloud raymarches and skipping zenith-heavy god-ray work - Added procedural Overworld night stars and End void stars - Made Nether fog respond to biome fog tint, with cooler warped-forest and ashier basalt-like atmospheres - Reduced cave-water reflection strength and rejected harsh underground SSR - Made TAA more responsive to water, weather, sky and motion to reduce ghosting - Reduced bloom intensity and raised the bloom threshold

In this version (1.2.0), there is a COMPLETE overhaul in weather: **What's fixed ✨ :** -No more placeholder rain effects (sorry for that in pervious versions) -Detailed "clouds" (volumetrics) **What's improved ✨:** -Improved performance (+10 FPS overally) -Better TAA quality **What's new ✨ :** -Rain puddles on water surface -Wet ground when rain is falling

It's version 1.1.5, here's the cahnges: **ADDED ✨**: -Shadow mapping, from 1K, up to 8K **FIXES ✨**: -Fixed TAA Ghosting -Fixed Sun position's getter -Fixed Sun-Block renderer -Fixed water caustics, and waves -Fixed performance issues

**⚠️ Set the color saturation UP in config for better gameplay!!!** ## This is the first published version of the Nexus Unbound✨, it contains: -TAA -SSAO -SSR -God Rays -Dynamic lighting (Hand, Sun, Moon) -Overworld & Nether & End atmospheres -Waving leaves -Water caustics, reflection, refraction -Underwater shaders (by the color of the water)