Lumina Shader - Lite

🌌 Lumina Shader Lite v1.2.5

This update improves the sky, emissive lighting, visual customization, and stability while preserving Lumina Shader Lite’s lightweight design and performance-first philosophy. ✨

✨ Added 🌠 Milky Way Brightness Added a new Milky Way Brightness setting under Environment & Sky. Available levels: OFF, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, 125%, and 150%. The default value is 100%, preserving the original appearance. Selecting OFF removes the Milky Way calculations from both the sky and reflection shaders, providing a small performance improvement. 🌋 Lava Brightness Added an independent control for adjusting lava brightness. Players can now reduce or increase lava intensity without changing other emissive materials. 🎨 Visual Improvements ☀️ The daytime horizon and distant atmospheric fog now use a cleaner, more natural sky-blue tone. 🌌 The Milky Way now follows the movement of the night sky correctly. 🔭 Improved the continuity of the Milky Way’s procedural pattern to prevent visible seams. 🌧️ Corrected the middle-sky coloration during heavy rain when using the Heavy & Colder weather style. 🌋 Improved the balance of lava emission and bloom.

🛠️ Fixed Prevented large lava surfaces from overexposing the image and washing the screen out to white. Limited lava emission before it enters the Bloom pass. Added a safety limit to the Bloom input to control extreme emissive sources. Fixed an inherited bug that used the horizon rain color for the middle portion of the sky. Applied the rainy-weather color correction both with and without SPECIAL_BIOME_WEATHER. Removed the spherical-coordinate seam from the Milky Way. Corrected the Milky Way’s celestial orientation so it moves naturally with the night sky.

⚡ Optimized Reduced the number of procedural noise calculations used by the Milky Way. The Milky Way continues to use no additional textures, ray marching, or expensive volumetric effects. Disabling the Milky Way completely excludes its calculations from the compiled sky and reflection shaders. The default 100% setting preserves the intended appearance and Lumina Shader Lite’s performance-focused identity.

✅ Validation Validated shader references and includes. Verified every conditional path used by the new options. Validated the settings menu and every available value. Verified distribution-package integrity and source parity. Confirmed that the final ZIP contains 397 files. Confirmed that no unnecessary macOS metadata, including .DS_Store, is present.

💙 Thank you for using Lumina Shader Lite! Enjoy brighter skies, better lighting, improved customization, and smooth performance.