Visual Effects+

General

• Fixed multiple bugs from the previous version
  • Major issue: broken mipmaps (found by @im_bunny7 on the Visual Effects + Discord)
• General particle optimization pass

Colormaps

• Implemented a compound colormap system
• Updated fog and sky colormaps for every biome
  • Includes dynamic weather and sunsets
• Updated grass and foliage colormaps for every biome
• Updated water and water fog colormaps for every biome

Lightmap

• Added a new lightmap implementation
  • Subtle lighting and color shifts for a more stylized look

Particles

New Particles

• Mid / full block–sized glow particle
• Waterfall cascade particles
  • Spawn from flowing water when a still water block is above
• Wind gust particle

Particle Reworks

• Block break particles for foliage (all leaf block types)
• Cherry flower particles
• Dragon breath particles (new approach)
• Falling leaves particles
• Fog particles
  • Math expressions rewritten
  • Texture replaced
  • Spawn behavior improved
  • Added fog to many new areas
• Leaf litter particles
• Light rays particles
  • Includes underwater light rays
  • Math expressions rewritten
  • Texture replaced
  • Spawn behavior improved
• Run and jump dust particles
• Smoke and poof particles (new texture)
• Wild flower particles
• Wind particle (old variant reworked)
• davidparticles:flame and soul davidparticles:flame particles

Weather Particles

Rain

• Rain particle behavior and spawn conditions reworked
• Rain fog particle behavior and spawn conditions reworked

Snowy Biomes

• Drizzle particle behavior and spawn conditions reworked
• Snowflake particle behavior reworked

Desert Biomes

• Added fog particles
• Sand dust cloud particle behavior and spawn conditions reworked
• Sand mote particles reworked
• Sand mote group particle behavior and spawn conditions reworked
• Sandstorm particle behavior and spawn conditions reworked
• Tumbleweed behavior and spawn conditions reworked

Soul Storm

• Added fog particles
• Added wind gust particles
• Soul particles behavior reworked
• Soul sand group particle behavior and spawn conditions reworked

Textures

• End sky texture rework
• New sun and sky textures
• Removed shading from some blocks to improve compatibility with glow particles

Misc

• Many additional minor particle tweaks and adjustments to unify the overall visual style
• And probably a lot of other things I already forgot

New Features

• Flashback compatibility
• 3D tumbleweeds with new behavior
• Meteor shower event
• Butterflies groups
• End glow
• Leaves on water (fallen leaves can now float)
• Underwater explosions
• Bubbles spawn when player moves fast underwater

Reworks & Visual Improvements

• Flame particles reworked
• Sandstorm – improved behavior and optimization (better particle movement & alpha expressions)
• Light rays – more lively and randomized, optimized
• Rain – new particles, smoother thunder transition, optimized behavior
• Snowy weather – improved logic (calmer during normal snow, stronger wind during thunder)
• Rain splash – less repetitive with new expression
• Butterflies – improved, more random movement
• Volumetric fog – new optimized particle expression
• Falling leaves – new behavior and logic
• Water splashes – new particles
• Leaf litter – improved logic (reacts to player)
• Underwater light rays – fully reworked
• Underwater particles – improved logic and optimized
• Minecraft splash particle – reworked
• Sunset colormaps – improved visuals

Optimization & Bug Fixes

• General underwater optimization
• Weather events optimization
• Various particle optimizations across multiple effects
• Other minor changes and bug fixes

• Indoor weather fixed
• Desert sky and fog colormaps changes
• Desert weather optimization
• Rain colormap
• Grey leaves without colormap fixed

• Toggles quickfix ( categories feature deleted )

• Bit of optimization
• Bug fixes
• Cave dust optimized
• Colormap toggle fixed
• Light rays update
• New birds texture
• New campfire particles
• New cave fog
• New end portal particles
• New plains-like biomes fog color
• Polytone 3.5.4 compatibility
• Raindrop particles spawn condition fixed ( previously didnt spawn when player was far from ground )
• Respackopts categories
• Running and jumping dust particles
• Snowy weather fog changes ( fog expression and colors changed )
• Snowy weather remake ( rain, thunder )
• Sunsets