Mirai

3.0.0

• Support MCBE 26.50 and above
• Support for iOS
• Added simple filtering to screen space reflections
• Added parallax effect to water waves
• Added rain puddles on upward-facing surfaces
• Added rain contribution to sky and atmosphere
• Added simple distance/boder fog
• Added new materials

Changed

• Codebase rebuilt for the new compiler, with a new shader and file structure
• Improve cirrus cloud shape
• Improve tonemapping
• Simplify exposure, now always driven by the scene’s average brightness
• Reduce water scattering brightness
• Rework atmospheric scattering
• Simplify volumetric fog and air scattering
• Simplify sky probe shading
• Rework shadow filtering

Removed

• Remove volumetric clouds, including it's shadows, because the buffer that stored their noise textures is no longer accessible to one of the materials (cirrus clouds remain)
• Remove the old deferred multipass and tiled materials
• Remove distant transition fading to subsurface scattering material, now at a distance of about 50 blocks from the player's position, all blocks that have subsurface scattering will looks ugly
• Remove screen space reflection to the water surface when the camera is in the water

Known Bug

• Some objects rendered as “Actors” appear completely black (does not occur on Android devices with Mali GPUs)
• Severe color banding on volumetric fog (Mojang moved the temporal accumulation for froxels but didn’t apply it to the stage where scattering and color are calculated)

Limitation

• Objects that use forward rendering (e.g. glass, ice and banners) look distracting when viewed from underwater. This is inherent to deferred rendering, not a bug

2.1.1

• Added full support for Windows
• Added support for MCBE 26.10 and above
• Added screen space reflection to the water surface when the camera is in the water
• Added water scattering (not the volume)
• Added new materials
• Added support for colored floodfill/static lighting. Currently need another resource pack (vibrant visual pack) that has colored static light configurations
• Added transition fading to subsurface scattering material value, now at a distance of about 50 blocks from the player's position, all blocks that have subsurface scattering will use diffuse lambert

Changed

• Improve cirrus cloud shape
• Improve cirrus cloud lighting
• New cirrus cloud positioning, now the position is absolute to the world origin, no longer following the player's position
• Remove extra details on the edges of the volumetric cloud (a bit performance improvement)
• Improve volumetric clouds model
• Improve volumetric clouds lighting
• Improve volumetric clouds rendering
• Improve volumetric clouds shadow accuracy
• Reduce albedo brightness
• Increase contrast and exposure to post processing
• New underwater detection method
• Improve volumetric fog, now the fog disappears when the player is inside the cave
• Reduce subsurface scattering falloff
• Reduce water normal map offsets/bump
• Increase water surface wave distance smoothing
• Increase water caustics brightness
• Desaturate directional lighting color at night
• Reduce volumetric clouds brightness at night
• Some changes to atmospheric scattering, now it is warmer in the morning or afternoon and also more vibrant at dusk
• Remove celestial bodies on probe reflections because they all look ugly
• Improve nether and endworld ambient lighting
• New block lightmap lighting
• Improve undewater volumetric fog placement
• Increase sun brightness

Fixes

• Fixes broken noise textures (affected to volumetric and planar clouds shape)
• Fixes volumetric clouds dithering (because of broken noise textures)
• Fixes billboard rendering
• Fixes underwater rendering
• Fixes wrong tonemapping implementatione

2.0.0

• Added Real-time, permeable volumetric clouds with shadows
• Added Volumetric fog underwater
• Added Lighting fades at sunset, night and sunrise

Changed

• New 2D clouds, water waves and water caustics
• New lighting system: baked AO is separate from albedo and contributes to ambient lighting
• New celestial bodies: the sun is drawn in shader code, the moon uses Minecraft's texture
• New screen-space reflections: sharper, more vertical tracing, no screen edge fading
• Brighter, less saturated shadows, and lower color saturation in post-processing
• Less mie scattering in volumetric fog, with more intensity at sunrise
• Shadow blur is now the same at all quality settings

1.1.1

Fixed

• Black rectangle when looking at objects that produce bloom
• Invisible map
• Chaotic beam effects when defeating the Ender Dragon
• Raindrop particles passing through blocks
• Bright water in the End
• Flashbang effect when joining a world
• Volumetric fog not rendering properly on some objects

Changed

• Reduced subsurface scattering falloff and water wave frequency
• Increased emissive intensity of texture material

1.0.0

Initial release.