Features added in March

Hello! Things are kinda crazy in the world and I hope all of you are staying as safe as you can. Due to almost everything being shut down I spent a lot of time developing last month! In order of the picture's here's the most prominent additions to Raspberry.

-New water

This pattern is a lot more realistic in my opinion, and can even run faster than the last due to being entirely comprised of sin and cos waves instead of noise texture lookups!

-Directional Lightmaps

Now in Raspberry if you have a resource pack with normal maps, all lighting will be directional on those blocks, including light from emitters, the sky, and even bounced global illumination. This has no performance impact~

-Ray Traced Contact Shadows

Due to the way a shadowmap is generated and distorted in a minecraft shader, you can have ugly separation between a shadow and the thing occluding it, to remedy this I've added short range ray traced contact shadows to the beginning of the shadowmap, giving even the smallest details their own crisp shadowing <3

-2D Cloud Layer

Mostly made for people with PCs that dislike rendering 3D clouds at a high framerate, these alternative 2D one are faster, and very detailed.

-Better Nebula Rendering

A bit faster and way more realistic, the nebula improved a lot incrementally over the month and probably will a lot more in the future! There are many settings for customization to get it to look exactly how you want.

-Various Mod Support

As time goes on I'm adding support for various fabric mods as I have the time, currently added support for all world generation mods that add custom foliage, and a few other miscellaneous mods that change rendering.

Less prominent additions include:

-Better TAA (with toggle and settings)
-Better RTAO with advanced settings for customization
-Fixed up 1.15 support
-New lookup tables, and removed banding with lookup function
-Color coded setting values for clarity
-Many performance improvements across multiple effects

As always the latest dev versions are available for supporters of $1 or higher~ Thank you so much for all who support me during this craziness, it helps so so much <3<3