Features added in April

Another month of things! World is still crazy but seems to be getting better? Anyway here's the stuff I added to raspberry last month, in order of the pictures~

-New clouds

I improved the lighting and shaping of them drastically, giving them a much more realistic and natural feel <3 the settings have also been tweaked to give better customization.

-Improved atmosphere

To complement the clouds, I've worked a lot on improving the accuracy of the ray marched atmosphere, specifically in the morning and evening since sunsets are the best part of the day :>

-Translucent rendering

Stained glass is here! the colors of shadows are changed based on the color of the glass, and everything behind it is finally tinted realistically, even bounced light is effected by the coloration <3

-Dynamic lens flare

The lens streaks were pretty but why not add a large anamorphic style lens flare as well? It has settings and works from all sources of light (the sun, emitters, resource pack emission etc). It's also very fast since it just distorts the already existing bloom tiles.

-Pixelizer and palette fitter

Been a thing in MollyVX for a while, but I've improved it and brought it over to raspberry <3 with over 30 palettes to choose from, and tons of settings, you can really get a ton of classic game styles with little effort

-Improved specular reflections

Quality and accuracy improved across the board, reflections are no longer rougher than they should be and can work for puddles / other extremely smooth surfaces~

 Less prominent additions include:

-Fixed refraction, much fewer artifacts and works underwater.
-Drastically improved lighting and auto exposure, making most scenes appear much more natural.
-Fixed lines appearing on the sky with AMD and Intel GPUs.
-Improved speed of many things, optimization was key with the new and more complex cloud lighting.
-Fixed contact shadows flickering and causing random issues.
-Added many settings to many various effects to allow greater customization.
-Improved water appearance by selectively changing TAA weight based on movement.