Vanilla Enhanced

🌿 Vanilla Enhanced Shader v0.4 - Release Notes

🔄 General Overview:

• Faithful to vanilla style, but with significantly enhanced lighting, saturation, and vibrancy.
• Balanced for performance and quality, keeping a lightweight shader core.

🔆 UPDATES & FEATURES

🎨 Color & Lighting Enhancements:

• 📈 Improved saturation and contrast:
  • Colors are now vivid and lively instead of washed out.
  • Powered by saturation(..., 1.2) and contrast(..., 1.15) functions.
• ☀️ Dynamic day-night tinting:
  • Gradual and natural sky tint transitions throughout the time cycle.
  • Handled by getDayNightColor() function.

🌊 Underwater Visuals:

• 💧 New underwater tint and depth shading:
  • Replaces vanilla's flat water with deeper, immersive blue tones.
  • Realistic light attenuation using depthFade blending.
• 🌫️ Fog inside water for enhanced depth perception:
  • Color blending simulates realistic underwater vision limits.

🌦️ Weather & Fog Effects:

• 🌧️ Rain fog tint now gives a moody gray-blue filter to the world.
  • Applied via fogColor = mix(...) depending on rainStrength.
• 💦 Wetness effect post-rain: adds mild brightness and saturation for realism.

🕳️ Cave Environments:

• 🌌 Darkening and tinting in low skylight caves:
  • Faint purple shadows and flickering light in deep darkness.
  • frameTimeCounter adds a pulsing flicker effect.

📊 Performance & Compatibility:

• Built using #version 120 GLSL, works even on older GPUs.
• Focused on visual fidelity with minimal post-processing.

🚧 Roadmap for v0.5:

• Godrays (sunlight beams)\
• Simple SSR reflections\
• Layered distance fog\
• Smoother skybox transitions