Its really been a long time, but a new version is finally here! After months of hard work and an entire rewrite, I'm happy to finally bring Escheridia V3.0 to all of you!

Escheridia V3.0

General

• Fixed an issue that resulted in particles blending incorrectly on surfaces with subsurface scattering, water, or reflections
• Rain has recieved the same fixes
• Fixed a shader compile error when disabling SSR

Lighting

• Lighting has been completely rebuilt and overhauled
• Updated diffuse light method within the brdf for directional lighting
• Improved specular handling to fix bloom from "exploding" on metals and other shiny objects with a labPBR resource pack
• Improved skylight and blocklight curves for more dynamic lighting

Atmosphere

• Made many improvements to volumetric fog
• Reduced number of filter samples for volumetrics
• Fixed an issue that would result in inconsistent volumetrics across old-newer mc versions
• Volumetric fog now fades out towards the border resulting in a more clear sky while volumetrics are enabled
• Note: Fog at the border does not blend cleanly with the terrain while volumetrics are enabled
• Improved sky colors
• Sky is now rendered in a deferred pass rather than from the sky gbuffers
• Border fog will now correctly render through transparent surfaces
• Fully overhauled the weather experience
• Weather visuals will now fade in/out when entering biomes that do not have weather affects in vanilla minecraft

Materials

• Added porosity support during weather events
• Added a new noise-based puddle system with a puddle ripple effect during rain
• Water waves have been updated to appear less repetitive and have varying intensities
• Completely overhauled ssr and roughness based reflections
• Rough reflections now react more correctly and no longer rely on an arbitrary threshold.
• Reflections now exponentially lose their intensity based on the roughness of the block rather than being hard capped (will optimize this in the future)
• Greatly improved the handling of metals.
• Added a slight blur to denoise reflections
• Metals now have clean reflection tinting and also corrected a mistake that resulted in the incorrect F0 value being used in the BRDF pass

Post processing

• Adjusted the default color parameters
• Changed tonemap to Lottes (was uncharted2)
• Added temporal reprojection filtering
• This will help clean up noise in the image that is produced from shadows, ssr etc. its not perfect but helps