Neon Reverie v1.1 Changelog

This update focuses on improving shadow transitions, restoring the ice rendering pipeline, expanding marshmallow cloud volume, balancing water tones, and overhauling the post-processing grading pipeline alongside preset structures and localization.

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Shadows

• Smoother Refresh: Decreased shadow update frequency to minimize rapid redraw stutter and flickering artifacts.
• Continuous Transition: Introduced continuous interpolation for dynamic shadow updates, ensuring smoother transitions between position changes.
• Edge Softening: Improved shadow sampling and edge filtering to reduce noticeable pixelation and harsh seams during player movement.
• Unified Underwater Shadows: Standardized underwater shadow filtering between surface view and submerged perspectives for consistent soft edge transitions.
• Edge Decay: Tamed distorted, elongated shadows at extreme angles and widened the soft edge falloff radius.

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Ice Surface

• Independent Shading Pipeline: Restored the dedicated transparency and reflection path for standard ice instead of treating it as a generic opaque block.
• Environmental Reflections: Re-enabled natural reflections for the sky, environment, and surrounding scenery.
• Enhanced Translucency: Boosted the optical clarity and translucency of regular ice while retaining standard block textures and solar highlights.
• Material Blending: Refined the blend between ice specular reflections and the underlying transparency layer, removing unnatural metallic sheens.
• Constrained Underwater Reflections: Corrected reflection stacking on submerged ice faces to prevent drifting film artifacts across camera angles.
• Variant Preservation: Preserved distinct visual profiles for packed ice and blue ice to prevent adjustments to regular ice from disrupting other variants.

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Volumetric Clouds

• Expanded Volume: Increased the overall scale and coverage depth of marshmallow-style volumetric clouds.
• Thicker Base Layer: Augmented the lower volume density to prevent clouds from appearing unnaturally flat at the base.
• Curved Silhouettes: Refined edge shading to favor rounded, organic ellipsoid shapes.
• Cluster Separation: Reduced extensive planar merging in favor of organic gaps to improve atmospheric sky depth.
• Code Standardization: Standardized internal cloud pipeline naming conventions to Rounded and Volumetric.

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Water & Underwater

• Saturation Adjustment: Slightly lowered water surface saturation to correct excessive blue tinting.
• Submerged Tonality Alignment: Balanced the overarching color curve to provide a smooth color transition when crossing the waterline.
• Optical Preservations: Maintained subtle surface ripples, reflections, refractions, and depth-based light absorption.
• Atmospheric Balance: Improved color balance across water bodies, ice surfaces, and environmental fog when rendered simultaneously.

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Post-Processing & Color Grading

• Pipeline Rollback: Rolled back experimental high-range color adjustments that previously caused sky overexposure and lighting inconsistencies.
• Stable Tonemap Stage: Re-anchored color grading strictly to the final display pass, avoiding interference with sky shaders or lighting buffers.
• Dedicated Tone Options:
  • Neutral
  • Warm Orange
  • Rose Warm
  • Cool Cyan
• Tone Intensity Slider: Added dedicated control over the blend strength of color profiles.
• White Balance Control: Retained independent color temperature adjustment for warm/cool fine-tuning.
• Consolidated Settings: Rebuilt the post-processing configuration panel, unifying Tone & Strength, White Balance, Exposure, Contrast, Vibrance, Dark Desaturation, Bloom, Depth of Field, Vignette, Lens Flare, Motion Blur, Chromatic Aberration, Sharpening, and Anti-Aliasing options.

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New Presets

1. Survival (Default)

• Tone: Neutral color grading.
• Focus: Prioritizes visual clarity, crisp landscapes, and eye comfort during long gameplay sessions.
• Effects: Disabled cinematic Depth of Field and heavy lens flares, with conservative bloom and light vignetting.

2. Cinematic - Pink

• Tone: Rose Warm profile with a default ~6800K white balance.
• Focus: Tailored for sunrise/sunset, cherry groves, snowy landscapes, and dreamlike environments.
• Effects: Moderately elevated bloom and saturation with subtle depth of field and soft vignetting.

3. Cinematic - Orange

• Tone: Warm Orange filmic grading with a default ~7200K white balance.
• Focus: Designed for cinematic screenshots, golden hours, and high-warmth environments.
• Effects: Offers richer warm highlights, filmic contrast, depth of field, and styled vignettes.

(Note: The Cool Cyan profile is built into the post-processing settings menu and does not occupy a dedicated preset slot.)

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Settings & Localization

• Preset Restructuring: Removed deprecated preset entries and replaced them with the three complete preset options above.
• Cleanup: Purged obsolete style identifiers, broken config keys, and unused legacy assets from shader directories.
• Localization Updates: Updated strings across 8 languages:
  • English
  • 简体中文 (Simplified Chinese)
  • 繁体中文 (Traditional Chinese)
  • 日本語 (Japanese)
  • 한국어 (Korean)
  • Français (French)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Português (Portuguese)

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Version & Compatibility

• Version: v1.1
• Platform: Built for Minecraft Java Edition via the Iris shader loader.
• Ecosystem Compatibility: Maintains native compatibility with Distant Horizons (DH) and Voxy.