Where Winds Blow

Added

• Added configurable blizzards during severe snowy weather, featuring terrain-aware ground spindrift, custom snow, and smooth whiteout fog.
• Added separate controls for normal and blizzard snowflake amount, size, and speed, plus configurable snowfall fog modes and intensity.
• Added optional desert and badlands sandstorms with wind-driven screen-space dust, terrain-aware rendering, biome-specific sand coloring, and visibility-reducing fog. Sandstorm effects and fog are disabled by default while I tune it.
• Added configurable, wind driven tumbleweeds in deserts and badlands.
• Added wind blown flower petals from nearby flowers.
• Added a toggle for wind blown leaf particles.
• Added dynamic rain squalls and configurable rain-angle variation.
• Added resource-driven foliage sway profiles. Client resource packs can now configure blocks and tags, motion types, priorities, opt-outs, interaction behavior, and per-profile height and strength scaling.
• Added foliage compatibility profiles for:
  • Bountiful Fares
  • Farmer’s Delight
  • No Man’s Land
  • Regions Unexplored
  • Sweety’s Garden
• Added biome-specific wind profiles for No Man’s Land.
• Added configurable, noise-clustered fern accents to world generation.
• Added foliage color variation controls.
• Added an in-game warning explaining Iris shader-pack limitations.

Changed

• Rebuilt snowfall around a dedicated shader-driven GPU renderer with a deterministic CPU fallback, improved vertical sampling, terrain clipping, and smoother animation.
• Rain and snow now render in separate precipitation passes and transition more smoothly as weather conditions change.
• Rain and snow now react more naturally to local wind, thunder, gusts, squalls, and wind lulls.
• Foliage sway now responds to current weather conditions, including storm loading, lulls, and gust fronts.
• Foliage interaction now produces directional motion wakes, movement trails, stationary pressure, and vertical influence.
• Responsive foliage animation now supports stepped movement, improved sheen, low-profile plants, tall columns, and top-anchored hanging plants.
• Wind streaks now use cleaner halo-and-core rendering, improved motion paths, near-camera fading, and revised spawning.
• Drifting leaf particles now match nearby oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak, mangrove, cherry, and azalea foliage.
• Local biome wind sampling is now smoothed when crossing biome boundaries.
• Tall and overgrown grass generation now forms irregular clustered patches with fringes and height-graded cores.
• Responsive foliage section invalidation, column scanning, and model caches are now bounded and more efficient.
• Wind, foliage, particle, weather, and decoration settings have been reorganized into more focused configuration groups.

Fixed

• Fixed wind sheen causing grass to appear white under moody brightness.
• Fixed twisting and weeping vines bending from the wrong anchor.
• Fixed incorrect wind and interaction scaling on pink petals and other low-profile foliage.
• Fixed azaleas, sea pickles, and waterlilies being deformed as generic bush foliage.
• Fixed randomized block-model offsets splitting foliage interaction sampling across block boundaries.

Compatibility

• ToucanLib 0.4.0 is now a required dependency.