Reshady

Reshady changelog: 23 to 27 October 2026

Settings and profiles

• High is now the default profile.
• New defaults: Render Scale 67%, Upscaled Sharpness 0.25 (same as normal sharpness), Reflection Lighting SSGI, one GI ray per pixel, 96 cloud steps, 16 fog steps.
• Ultra now uses PTGI reflection lighting, so everything is path traced.
• New Extreme profile: everything at full resolution with the most samples, steps and bounces, for screenshots and very fast GPUs.
• Extreme: 8 GI and 8 light samples, 16 reflection bounces, 256 cloud steps, 64 fog steps, 4096 shadows out to 256 blocks, traced voxel shadows, froxel fog and full-resolution water.
• Every profile now sets all quality options, so switching back down from Extreme resets everything properly.
• New Nether tab: brightness, smoke, biome colour and the new Haze Saturation.
• New End tab: brightness, fog density and height, cloud sea height, and the new Cloud Sea Density, Cloud Sea Coverage and Storm Lightning.
• New Tonemapping tab with Hable (filmic) and Reinhard next to AgX and ACES.
• Tonemapping options: Exposure, Saturation, Vibrance, Contrast, Midtones, Black Level, Temperature, Tint and Vignette.
• New Default Sheen: a soft plastic-like sun and moon highlight on overworld blocks without a PBR material, with a strength slider.
• LabPBR packs keep their own materials; the sheen only fills in where there is none.

Upscaler

• New learned upscaling model (V3), replacing V2.
• V3 is trained in mini-batches: the training steps no longer work against each other, so the network learned more consistently.
• V3 adds an edge-aware training goal next to the pixel and motion ones, so edges of fences, leaves and blocks stay crisp.
• V3 was trained on a simulation that now follows the shader's own rules: detail and entity classes, still image convergence and the fixed disocclusion check.
• V3 started from V2 and only versions that beat V2's score were exported.
• New Training Capture mode for training on real renders recorded with Replay Mod (keep it Off for playing).
• Fixed dark fringes building up along block edges: the history is now kept within the range of its source pixels.
• Still Image Convergence leaves animated things alone, so they keep moving while you stand still.
• Excluded from convergence: water, waving foliage, sky and clouds, flames and lava, particles, mobs and items, and reflective surfaces.
• Fixed reflections smearing into streaky patches while standing still.

Distant Horizons

• Full support: far terrain and water are drawn, lit and fogged by the pack.
• A thin distance haze over normal and DH terrain alike; the landscape slowly fades into the sky towards DH's render distance.
• New Distant Horizons Fog setting to make the haze thinner or thicker.
• Normal terrain dissolves smoothly into DH terrain near the render distance, with no edge or gap.
• Normal water blends into the far water's look, with no visible line between them.
• Far water reflects the sun and the clouds.
• Fixed black screen areas caused by DH terrain overwriting nearby terrain.
• Fixed DH water being drawn in front of blocks.
• Fixed DH terrain not showing up at all.
• Fixed a fog setting that Iris switched off (wrong uniform type).
• DH's overdraw prevention is set so its terrain covers the fade band.

Reflections

• Rebuilt reflection denoiser.
• Sharp reflections now follow the reflected object, so they no longer snap or turn grainy while moving.
• Rough reflections follow their surface and are blurred over a wider area scaled by roughness.
• Fixed moire streaks and flicker from the blur's sampling pattern.
• Fixed reflections swinging between two angles every 2 seconds while standing still.
• Reflection rays now only use surface angles the viewer can see: much less flicker.
• Reflections are a little sharper.
• PTGI reflection lighting now uses the world-space light cache: no more "shadows" of the hand or walls in reflections.
• PTGI reflections are brighter and correct under lamps.
• SSGI blends smoothly between screen and fallback lighting, so reflections are no longer cut into pieces.
• Every light source glows in reflections, also when its light-list slot is taken by a neighbour.
• Torches, flowers and rails now show up in water reflections.
• Fixed soft arcs around lamps in rough reflections.

Water

• Fixed water turning into a perfect mirror up close and in some chunks.
• Things seen through water get real path traced lighting instead of blocky light.
• Fixed a hand-shaped shadow on the seabed.
• Fixed black lines along pool rims.
• Fixed wall-coloured strips along the edges of far water.

Lighting and shading

• The path tracer holds twice as many lights per area (32), so walls of lamps light evenly.
• Fixed thin faces seen edge-on turning black in the path traced lighting.
• Thin faces now search further for lighting samples on their own surface.
• Fixed dark halos from SSAO along edges in front of other surfaces.
• Lit redstone ore: only the red specks glow, the stone stays normal.

Clouds

• Blocky clouds are shaded as one body, with no streaks from the cell edges inside them.
• Blocky clouds are solid except for their thinnest corners.

Performance and clean-up

• Removed unused code (an old end portal effect and unused sky and light helpers).
• The full sky computation is only compiled where it is used.
• The Distant Horizons haze skips its sky lookup where it is invisible.

Earlier (23 to 24 October)

• Fog, light cache and light volume updates.
• First Distant Horizons programs.