🌌 Lumina Event Horizon v1.3.9 — Cinematic Focus

Bring your subject into focus. This update introduces Cinematic Autofocus, smoother depth-of-field effects, and compatibility improvements targeting Minecraft Java 1.8–26.3. ✨

🎯 New Cinematic Autofocus

• Added automatic focus that follows what you are looking at.
• Keeps the focused subject and foreground sharp while softly blurring the background.
• Added adjustable intensity and quality controls.
• Added depth handling for Distant Horizons terrain.

🎬 Smoother, Cleaner Blur

• Improved Cinematic Autofocus, Distance Blur, and the previous depth-of-field mode.
• Added bilinear and trilinear filtering with smoother sampling to reduce pixelation, halos, and repeated outlines.
• Added Cinematic quality — 64 samples.
• Added Ultra quality — 96 samples.
• Adapted filtering to the rendering resolution, including 4K.
• Improved protection against background color bleeding onto hands and nearby objects.

🧩 Minecraft 26.3 Compatibility

• Updated the target compatibility range to Minecraft Java Edition 1.8–26.3.
• Added support for Iris’s integrated enchantment glint rendering on 26.3.
• Enabled separate entity rendering when required by Iris.
• Corrected legacy identifiers for signs, skulls, banners, beds, silver shulker boxes, enchanting tables, and redstone torches.

💨 Motion Blur Removed

• Removed the motion blur effect and its settings.
• Removed the auxiliary bloom correction associated with motion blur.
• Checked that bloom retains its previous behavior after the removal.

📖 Documentation and Credits

• Updated the README, changelog, and package metadata.
• Added instructions for enabling and adjusting Cinematic Autofocus.
• Streamlined the README credits while retaining attribution to Complementary Reimagined and preserving the existing license.

🛠️ Validation and Testing

• Expanded automated checks for version metadata, settings, and compatibility requirements.
• Performed shader preprocessing checks.
• Ran isolated GPU tests of the blur filter on Apple M4, including 4K rendering.
• Verified the ZIP packages published with RC1 and RC2.

📦 Release Preparation

• Published two release candidates for testing.
• The current v1.3.9 development baseline builds on RC2, followed by the README credits update.

Sharper subjects, smoother backgrounds, and more control over your cinematic style. 🌠