Welp so it begins. Welcome to what will probably be the longest changelog ever. Strap in for a really long ride fellas!

---Lighting---

Many many reworks to lighting have been done since the last version.

• Sunlight has recieved many tweaks and changes
  • sunlight during the day is now much brighter and more intense
  • sunrise and sunset have seen a full rebalance of sunlight coloring and intensity
  • nighttime has been completely overhauled and looks completely new and fully stylized now
• Skylight has seen a few tweaks across the board.
  • Skylight intensity has been increased at all times of day. Lighting should now feel far more natural.
• Block lighting has seen a complete revamp.
  • Revamped the vanilla blocklighting system with a custom tuned falloff and intensity bias
  • Block light now has a strong inner glow with a falloff to white.
  • range of blocklight is lower than vanilla
• Reduced ambient light intensity
• Water has seen some big reworks to its lighting since its introduction.
  • Water now recieves increased bloom when underwater
  • Enabled "total internal reflection" on the water surface when underwater
  • This means reflections will be cleanly visible on the water surface
  • Water lighting paramaters are no longer hardcoded and are now fully editable by the user in game! Have fun!
  • Resolved an issue with specular lighting on water going through water and applying to blocks underneath

---Atmosphere---

Atmosphere has been fully overhauled and should now deliver a much more immersive experience than before!

• Updated the sky model
  • You all asked for a better sky so here it is!
• Added a rayleigh phase function to the sky calculation
  • this simulates actual scattering within an atmosphere
• Reworked the mie scattering to be less jarring to look at
• Revamped the sky at all times of day
  • The sky paramaters are now fully editable and all times of day can be changed as you please!
• Added Rayleigh Scattering option to increase or decrease scattering amounts
• Removed Vanilla MC Sun and replaced it with a shader-based sun
  • This new sun looks more like the real sun and is baked into the shader
  • NOTE: due to an issue, the vanilla MC moon is left enabled (this will be added as a toggle later)
• Weather recieved some big changes
• Atmospheric fog now rolls in slower and persists for some time after rain ends, making it feel more like a weather event took place
• Rain is now tilted and falls at an angle
• Rain is now output to the bloom buffer
  • This allows rain to be manipulated by bloom and recieve illumination from it
• Rain puddles now fade in slower and persist for a short while after rain (if you want to just quickly reset it, just reload the shader with R)
• Fog has seen some big reworks since the last version as well!
• Fog and Sky Rendering is now split. This resolves a weird bug when it would begin raining
• Quick note, since fog and sky have now been split apart in rendering, the transitions between fog and terrain are a bit less clean than in older versions
• Added options to adjust the fog density, this is split into two options, sun fog and air fog.
  • Sun fog is the fog nearest to the sun and is often a slightly different color tint
• Increasing air fog density will increase godray density
  • this can get very intense so I recommend reducing godray density with this
• Exposed the absorption factor for godrays, to tweak their color
• Quick Note, currently atmosphere fog is based on the sky color, so changing that will also change the fog

---Materials---

Not nearly as much has changed here, however there are a few notable fixes and improvements

• Added water waves
  • Currently you can adjust the speed, frequency and intensity of the waves
• Fixed an issue with SSR where it would get cut off near the top
• Improved the SSR Refinement search system making it higher quality
• SSR no longer tips off its axis at extreme angles
• Fixed a strange SSR artifact
• Adjusted SSS parameters
  • SSS now mixes regular SSS and the old Phase Function SSS
  • This means SSS is now visible from all angles rather than just the sun, however its still stronger when in direct sunlight

---Post Processing---

• Replaced the old AgX tonemapper with a new ACES tonemap
  • I do intend to bring back selectable tonemaps in a future update
• Bloom... finally...
  • While bloom was in older versions, it was heavily incomplete
• Fully implemented Bloom

---Misc---

• Improved flickering artifacts with Pixelated Lighting
  • Added pixelated reflections as well
• Reorganized the settings screen, things are cleaner and more organized now