Sulkan

Sulkan 0.6.0

Water (Sulkan Realistic)

• Faster reflections: water viewed from above skips reflection tracing, and reflection quality 1–3 traces half the pixels and fills in the rest
• Fewer cloud samples in reflected clouds

Shadows

• Fixed striped shadow artifacts on surfaces close to the camera
• Fixed shadows disappearing at the edge of the view when turning
• Fixed tall distant casters (hills, trees at low sun) losing their shadows past the second cascade
• Smoother transitions between shadow cascades
• Fixed slow shadow drift on the nearest cascade
• Faster near shadows: terrain is cached, and entities and wind-animated plants are drawn on top each frame
• Removed held-item (torch) shadows

Engine

• Detects GPU features (float16, subgroups, Apple/MoltenVK) and uses them
• Vulkan pipeline cache saved to disk for faster startup
• Packs can set per-platform option and resource overrides
• Clear error when a pack pass uses more textures than the GPU allows

Shader packs / UI

• Shader folder moved from shaders/ to shaderpacks/, with automatic migration
• Iris/OptiFine packs are hidden and their count is shown
• Shaders screen no longer rescans the disk every frame
• Clicking the selected pack retries it if it failed to load