New cloud visuals

Too many changes to list here

Skylight modification

Skylight level that terrain and world surface recieve is now affected by clouds overhead and transmittance value that shader returns

Close lightning strikes illuminate ground

New scenario

New high cape scenario squall_7! Get it on github!

New Visuals

Replaced billinear interpolation upscaling with depth aware bilateral upscaling for volumetrics

Removed bilateral blur on volumetrics

New denoising techniques for volumetrics

Weakened blue shadowing for clouds

Larger transmittance distance for clouds

Weakened ambient lighting on clouds, direct sunlight dominates way more

Improvements to evening color palette

Added FBM noise to clouds

Changed sun and moon angle

Light fun!

Beacons now emit light which is scattered producing really beautiful beams at night, clouds and precipitation scatter light more making beams more visible

Added laser pointer, can be configured to have custom color and intensity, follows similar logic to beacon beams but can be pointed anywhere

Swaying Foliage

Grass, flowers, other foliage blocks now sway in wind

Doesnt work with sodium, sorry, but sodium support would mean constant maintenance of mod, which i dont really want to do

New Lightnings

Fully rewrote most of lightning visual backend

Better shapes, vertical strikes, horizontal

Better fading and time progression

Lightning mesh is now fed into shader for accurate volume glow

Daytime lightnings now have flashes

New Moon

Moon now has phases and new high resolution textures

Power Flashes

Powered redstone dust, and some other blocks (comparators, repeaters, lamps ect) now spark, produce electrical buzz and bright blue-green flash when destroyed by wind

Redstone dust block was nerfed, starting from 15m/s wind speeds it can be destroyed

Dynamic Cloud Coverage

There are weather cycles now that determine cloud density, thickness and coverage based on daytime, world seed and month

New /pmweather ambientclouds command to manipulate ambient clouds

Replaced Minecraft sky with Nishita multiscattering sky model

New blocks

Atmosphere sensor, outputs redstone signal when detects scenario, hail, lightning near, sends redstone signal to one of sides, each side represents different detection type

Siren, same as tornado siren in base mod but powered by redstone

Updated balloon platform

Now balloon platform can hold weather balloons and have auto launch schedule set up

Bugfix

Fixed custom colortables not working

New evening lighting

Proper elevation advantage

Better coloring

Better time range

New night lighting

Better moonlight color and intensity

Slight scattering changes

True IR

Radar IR mode now shows actual cloud tops and their temperatures

Longer days and initiation windows

Days are now 1 hour long, day and night length is month dependant, in june day is aprox. 37 minutes long, night 23

Storm spawn chances are now daytime dependant, with highest likelyhood of spawn in afternoon/early evening window, and lowest in late night/morning

Other

Keyframe lerping improvements

Radar Improvements

Polar radars

New colortables

Constant radar updates

Better radar performance

Lightning simulation model

Simulates charge separation and charge zones within scenarios

Simulates IC/CG separation

New blocks: VLF Discharge Reciever, VHF Flash Interferometer

VLF Discharge Reciever

Upgrades radar to be able to display CG (Cloud to Ground) strikes

VHF Flash Interferometer

Upgrades radar to be able to display IC (Intracloud) flashes

Rayleigh scattering for lightnings

Lightning lighting is now affected by rayleigh scattering, resulting in orange/red color with distance

Rewrote most of Java side rendering code and big part of shader code to make rendering more stable, this should fix faulty lerping between frames and occasional flickering when 2 scenarios active, as well as issues for some GPUs

Fixed lightnings producing thunder audiable up to 80000 block distance causing dead storms to "thunder"

Fixed TLE's rendering on top of blocks

Added hail damage, for blocks and entities

New lightning system that uses updraft speed and precipitation regions to estimate lightning frequency and strike regions similar to real life

Added sounds for rain and hail hitting glass blocks

Support for zlib compression and other compression in scenarios

30 new scenarios (new scenario pack is required)

Scenarios now have energy categories, in low instability environmenets low cape scenarios will spawn, in medium instability medium cape scenarios same for high

Scenarios carry metadata for type, depending on month different storm types will dominate over others, seasons off defaults to may chances

Scenarios now have movement metadata that allows them to move in accurate direction and speed