Rethinking Voxels

• improved ghosting
• increased light discovery speed
• added conway's game of life to the end
• added fractal night sky option
• fixed denoiser sometimes turning off in unaccumulated areas
• fixed some lights not casting light in all directions when they should
• groundwork for radiance cache
• treat all light sources as opaque in the voxel data so rays can actually hit them
• automatically select only some parts of light source blocks as emissive when emissives are not based on the resource pack

• add option to check calculate contribution of all visible light sources at every pixel every frame
• hopefully fix two compile errors on some hardware
• tweak light source colours to be more saturated
• add options to disable denoising and accumulation known issue: setting voxel resolution to 32x32x32 doesn't work

• rewrote most of the blocklight calculation pipeline
• more aggressive denoising algorithm
• resource packs with custom models now work correctly as long as the models stay within the blocks
• improved performance in most cases (especially the worst ones)
• updated to reimagined r5.0.1
• removed all mod support

• improve reprojection to no longer produce artefacts in movement
• actually fix "translucent" hand problem
• turn off debug view

• add light block (minecraft:light, not block light emitters in general) support
• fix incomplete pipeline in nether and end (nether is still largely broken because of light overflow near lava lakes, but that is a bug in the pipeline, not a caused by the missing pipeline)
• fix "iris required" screen showing wrong text
• fix some shader option menus
• fix "translucent hand" issue

• reimplement and improve handheld lights
• update to reimagined r2.2

• fix compile error on AMD windows

DISCLAIMER

this version is an alpha release. it is expected to contain many bugs.

hotfix

• fix shading with basic PBR support or per-pixel lighting
• fix a compilation error with default settings

changes

• rewrite the lighting code:
  • increase maximum amount of lights at any given location from 3 to 64
  • bump openGL version from 330 to 430 for compute shader support (this breaks MacOS compatibility)
  • merge shadow volume blocklight shadow mode and basic light propagation
  • add accurate ray tracing (off by default)
    • this allows custom models and mobs to be handled correctly by the ray tracer
  • add denoising
  • remove global illumination (or not implement it again yet)
  • remove interactive water waves (the setting still exists, but does not work)
• Change versioning scheme
  • I would like to publish a full release eventually

DISCLAIMER

this version is an alpha release. it is expected to contain many bugs.

note

There are currently 3 primary files in this version. they are identical and only made it onto the download page by mistake

changes

• rewrite the lighting code:
  • increase maximum amount of lights at any given location from 3 to 64
  • bump openGL version from 330 to 430 for compute shader support (this breaks MacOS compatibility)
  • merge shadow volume blocklight shadow mode and basic light propagation
  • add accurate ray tracing (off by default)
    • this allows custom models and mobs to be handled correctly by the ray tracer
  • add denoising
  • remove global illumination (or not implement it again yet)
  • remove interactive water waves (the setting still exists, but does not work)
• Change versioning scheme
  • I would like to publish a full release eventually

• fix shader compilation on Iris 1.6

• updated to reimagined r2.0.3

• fix volumetric block light
• fix light shafts in caves when moving across block boundaries

• fix compile error with generated normals
• fix normals on entities with half-res blocklight shadow mode
• fix GI flickering in some cases

• update to reimagined r2.0.2
• attempt to rebalance a couple of things including GI (not done yet)
• fix light colour detection
• fix M1 crash

• add more modded light sources
• address some more issues with GI

• fix hard edges in lighting on non-block-grid-aligned surfaces with GI enabled
• fix compile error in gbuffers_block with block light shadow modes other than half-res

• fix compile errors
  • with per-pixel shadows
  • without light shafts
• add global illumination
• fix trapdoors sometimes blocking light when they shouldn't

• Fix Half-Res blocklight shadows on block entities
• Fix Half-Res blocklight shadows with pixelated shadows

• rename Pixel Perfect Blocklight option to Blocklight Shadow Mode
• add Half Res blocklight shadow mode
• fix flashing when moving the camera very fast
• fix ladder and repeater/comparator cuboid size
• add block.properties entry for modded light sources that uses the fallback blocklight colour
• improve wrong-looking shadows at noon
• fix compile error on some platforms
• add more modded light sources

• reworked light source sorting algorithm (less flickering, better performance)
• added some modded light sources
• fixed end nebulae