Visual Effects+

Visual Effects+ v1.3.0

This update mainly focuses on rebuilding fog, rain, wind, and lens flare effects.

Volumetric Fog

• Completely rebuilt fog fx using GPU particles.
• Replaced the old block-based emitters with a unified system centered around the player.
• Added separate light and dense fog variants for different biomes.
• Particles now follows the terrain heightmap.
• Fog color now dynamically follows the current in-game fog color with a slightly brighter tint.
• Added smooth lifetime and distance-based fading.
• Fog can now remain visible during rain.
• Unified fog coverage across most surface biomes and The End.
• Volumetric Fog is now enabled by default.

Rain FX

• Converted regular and heavy rain effects to GPU particles.
• Added four different rain sprite variants.
• Increased rain coverage around the player.
• Added smoother fade-in and fade-out.
• Improved collision with terrain and roofs using the heightmap.

Lens Flare

• Sun and moon lens flares now smoothly fade in and out when obstructed instead of disappearing instantly ( 1.21.11 only for now ).
• Improved visibility detection around the edges of blocks and terrain.
• Reduced the intensity of lens ghosts to make the effect less intrusive.
• Renamed “Glare shaders” to “Lens flare” in the configuration menu.
• The blue moon variant is now selected by default.

Wind and Ambient Effects

• Expanded the wind animation from 30 to 60 frames.
• Wind gusts are now larger, softer, and move at a more consistent speed.
• Wind can no longer spawn closer than 10 blocks from the player.
• Increased the size of light ray particles.
• Birds can no longer appear outside the Overworld.

Tumble✨

• Reworked tumble✨ movement and rolling.
• Tumble✨s can now climb over small obstacles instead of getting stuck.
• Added fake collision that gently pushes tumble✨s away from the player.
• Increased their lifetime and improved movement stability.
• Reduced the maximum amount from 24 to 12.

Movement Dust

• Reworked running and jumping dust to use player-based emitters.
• Improved player tracking and movement detection.
• Slightly increased the size of jump dust particles.

Textures and Colormaps

• Updated the moon textures with a cooler blue tone.
• Adjusted snowy biome sky sunset colors with cooler blue and cyan transitions.
• Updated the fallback grass and foliage color.
• Pink petals and wildflowers are no longer affected by the grass colormap.

Other Changes

• Updated internal shader and post-processing structure.
• Removed several unused legacy textures and particle definitions.