Release Notes - Version 3.2.0

A major visual and polish update introducing organic procedural splatter shapes with satellite droplets, seamless blood pool melding, world-space mottled liquid shading, and important bug fixes and rendering optimizations across all supported Minecraft versions.

Highlights

• Procedural Organic Splatters & Satellite Droplets:

  • Dynamic Blob Generation: Replaced fixed 16×16 static bitmasks with procedural organic silhouettes perturbed by low-frequency angular harmonics and per-texel jitter. Every blood impact now forms a uniquely shaped puddle rather than repeating the same stamp patterns.
  • Satellite Droplets & Tendrils: Impacts now cast realistic satellite droplets and thin connecting tendrils outward, capturing the high-velocity kinetic spray of combat and naturally bridging adjacent splatter impacts.
  • Organic Pool Melding: Overlapping blood splatters in [ClientCanvasStore](file:///home/ptphong/Projects/Minecraft/RedFX/common/src/main/java/com/drinfonty/redfx/client/ClientCanvasStore.java) now smoothly blend colors (averaging RGB while preserving the dominant alpha) rather than creating harsh cuts or hard overwrites, forming cohesive pools of blood on the ground.
  • Continuous Mottled Shading: Liquid color texturing is now computed using global world-space coordinates, ensuring seamless, unified lighting and liquid variation across adjacent blocks and merging splatters.

• Bug Fixes & Correctness:

  • Particle Alpha Reflection Fix on 26.x: Fixed a silent WrongMethodTypeException in ParticleAlphaHelper on Minecraft 26.x where setAlpha was moved to SingleQuadParticle, properly adapting method handle types and prioritizing setAlpha / method_3084 name lookups.
  • Removed Duplicate Underwater Smoke: Fixed an issue where underwater blood clouds were registered twice with ParticleEngine, causing them to tick twice per game tick and expire at $2\times$ speed.
  • Broken Block Pending Decal Cleanup: Decal clearing now purges queued delayed stages from [ClientCanvasStore](file:///home/ptphong/Projects/Minecraft/RedFX/common/src/main/java/com/drinfonty/redfx/client/ClientCanvasStore.java), preventing floating blood decals from appearing in mid-air if a block was destroyed while gradual splatter or wall-drip blossoms were still in progress.
  • Accurate Weapon Scaling Attribution: Damage source attribution now checks the actual LivingEntity attacker from DamageSource rather than falsely applying the local player's held weapon multiplier to environmental damage or mobs fighting nearby.
  • Low-Health Drip Alpha Consistency: Ensured low-health dripping particles properly apply configured bloodOpacity and particleLifetimeSeconds identically to impact particles.

• Performance & Code Simplifications:

  • NeoForge Dynamic Model Cache Optimization: Normalized Canvas timestamps in SurfaceCanvas so NeoForge's quad cache keys solely on texel content and surface geometry, preventing cache thrashing from timestamp and erosion ticks.
  • Deduplicated GUI & Rendering Logic: Consolidated 24-color preset tables between configuration screens and streamlined surface box-comparison calculations in [PaintSurface](file:///home/ptphong/Projects/Minecraft/RedFX/common/src/main/java/com/drinfonty/redfx/client/render/PaintSurface.java).

• Multi-Version Verification & Quality Assurance:

  • Fully verified and tested across all 8 supported Minecraft versions: 26.3, 26.2, 26.1, 1.21.11, 1.21.10, 1.21.8, 1.21.4, and 1.21.1 on both Fabric and NeoForge loaders.