Gleam

What changed / improved?

• Night sky is much darker and blacker, with denser, clumpier stars
• Auroras now only appear in snowy biomes, and fade in and out smoothly as you enter or leave
• Aurora has new curtain shapes and colours, plus a full set of aurora settings (palette, direction, speed, rays, custom colours)
• Shooting stars are fully customisable (colour, speed, trail length, frequency, amount) and there’s an optional meteor shower
• Fixed bloom artifacts: no more grain around glowstone and sea lanterns
• New settings for bloom colour, wide bloom and daytime bloom reduction
• Better fog that glows and warms toward the sun and cools away from it
• Water has softer sun and moon glints at sunrise and sunset
• New Fun Effects menu with a rainbow after rain, a meteor shower and a retro pixel filter
• New Grading & Filters menu with gamma, shadow lift, highlight boost, matte fade and a colour filter
• New cel shading option
• Added the Natural style, and 5 new colour schemes (Tropical Lagoon, Violet Twilight, Misty Forest, Desert Gold, Midnight Blue)
• Removed the Dreamy style
• New emissive settings for colour richness, hot core and night boost
• New End menu with void aurora, nebula, shooting stars and a palette choice, plus nicer Nether haze and embers
• New moon settings for size, phase and colour
• Better global illumination and coloured light, with new smoothing passes
• New performance mode with separate detail sliders for ambient occlusion, clouds, godrays and reflections
• Brighter nights, brighter caves and softer sharpening by default
• Better tone mapping, and more blocks added to the supported lists (vines, glow lichen, hanging roots, blue candles)
• Optimizations
• POM/LabPBR Fix