Alpha Piscium

Highlight

• Improved ReSTIR GI, denoising, shadows, and compute-pipeline performance
• Stabilized specular GI demodulation and fixed remaining numerical overflow

New

• Added configurable built-in metalness overrides and material data for known blocks
• Added comprehensive English and Simplified Chinese maintainer documentation

Improvement

• Optimized pass ordering and combined direct lighting with sky compositing
• Improved ReSTIR spatial clustering, tiling, temporal neighbor sampling, and reuse-texture generation
• Reduced compute-shader texture fetches, material decoding, dynamic indexing, and redundant work
• Simplified and optimized GI denoising by removing spatial variance processing and unrolling shared-memory kernels
• Improved specular denoiser accumulation, history reprojection, and remodulation
• Bypassed TAA-dependent FXAA and sharpening passes when TAA is disabled

Fix

• Fixed selection-box geometry writing an unintended view-depth target and causing a glow artifact
• Fixed specular GI numerical overflow, built-in PBR F0 handling, and minimum-reflectance clamping
• Fixed CIE XYZ luminance calculations
• Fixed clouds disappearing during shadow sampling
• Fixed atmospheric view-depth reconstruction, GI history dithering, and invalid spatial-reuse traces

Misc

• Removed obsolete shader code, redundant texture reads, unused denoiser resources, and stale GI debug data
• Updated package branch detection and support for newer Minecraft version numbers
• Fixed Windows options-generator recursion and Kotlin launcher detection