Nexus Unbound

Finally, a very good version of the shaderpack, 1.2.2, here's the changes:

1.2.2 — Tester Polish Pass

• Removed the temporary screen-space rain fallback

• Rebuilt rain as dense procedural filaments inside the real weather geometry

• Disabled projection jitter to stop whole-screen trembling while keeping TAA history rejection

• Added stronger End star atmosphere, subtle void haze and light streaks

• Added starfield rendering for End portals and End gateways

• Smoothed cloud density generation and raised default cloud coverage

• Brightened Nether lighting while keeping biome-tinted warm, warped and basalt-like fog

• Added more realistic Nether distance mist and lava-local haze

• Made underwater atmosphere clearer, less foggy and more depth-based

• Rejected water/reflection hits from water and translucent surfaces

• Reduced cave-water reflection strength further

• Added subtle stable block-lighting variation for less flat block rendering

• Smoothed darker Overworld night transition and reduced harsh night ambient shifts

⚠️ Not tested yet!

It's 1.2.1, so here is waht changed:

• Removed the placeholder screen-space rain effect

• Restored true world-space Minecraft weather geometry

• Added a dedicated premultiplied weather buffer

• Added detailed distance-faded, textured and animated rain filaments

• Made world depth and roofs naturally occlude precipitation

• Disabled precipitation while the camera is underwater

• Replaced vanilla block clouds with raymarched volumetric cloud layers

• Added multi-octave 3D cloud density, erosion and vertical shaping

• Added internal cloud light absorption and storm-darkened cloud shading

• Added cloud coverage, density and quality configuration

• Added cloud-transmittance shadows to direct sunlight

• Rebuilt volumetric fog with height density, optical depth and transmittance

• Added shadow-map-aware sunlight scattering inside fog

• Added world-space raindrop impact ripples to water

• Added TAA weather rejection to prevent rain ghost trails

• Preserved LOW through EXTREME profiles and optional 8K shadow maps

• Fixed the Iris/OptiFine blend parser crash by supplying all four blend factors

• Added blend-property validation to the build script

• Optimized cloud shadow density sampling without removing cloud layers

• Reused volumetric shadow visibility across adjacent high-quality fog samples

• Skipped cloud-shadow and rain-ripple work when it cannot affect the image

• Reduced the weather buffer to bandwidth-efficient RGBA8

• Added dense procedural rain streak fallback so storms are visible across the whole view

• Reduced sky-view performance cost by shortening cloud raymarches and skipping zenith-heavy god-ray work

• Added procedural Overworld night stars and End void stars

• Made Nether fog respond to biome fog tint, with cooler warped-forest and ashier basalt-like atmospheres

• Reduced cave-water reflection strength and rejected harsh underground SSR

• Made TAA more responsive to water, weather, sky and motion to reduce ghosting

• Reduced bloom intensity and raised the bloom threshold

In this version (1.2.0), there is a COMPLETE overhaul in weather:

What's fixed ✨ :

-No more placeholder rain effects (sorry for that in pervious versions)

-Detailed "clouds" (volumetrics)

What's improved ✨:

-Improved performance (+10 FPS overally)

-Better TAA quality

What's new ✨ :

-Rain puddles on water surface

-Wet ground when rain is falling

It's version 1.1.5, here's the cahnges:

ADDED ✨:

-Shadow mapping, from 1K, up to 8K

FIXES ✨:

-Fixed TAA Ghosting

-Fixed Sun position's getter

-Fixed Sun-Block renderer

-Fixed water caustics, and waves

-Fixed performance issues

⚠️ Set the color saturation UP in config for better gameplay!!!

This is the first published version of the Nexus Unbound✨, it contains:

-TAA

-SSAO

-SSR

-God Rays

-Dynamic lighting (Hand, Sun, Moon)

-Overworld & Nether & End atmospheres

-Waving leaves

-Water caustics, reflection, refraction

-Underwater shaders (by the color of the water)