Changes:
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Added a new lighting method (ReSTIR), disabled by default. Compared to Simple (the old method), ReSTIR can trace up to Max Lights at the cost of a little noise.
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Improve GI flicker at large distances (especially with low render resolution)
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Max voxelized block states has been increased from ~4k to ~8k
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Photonics will now show an error message in chat if the max voxelized block states has been reached
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Added a new option to adjust the strength of lighting from held enchanted items
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Added a new global toggle for 3D Blocks in Photonics settings
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Added SSR fallback when using WSR with Photon
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Change handheld lighting to calculate independently for each hand. It will by default use 2 rays for visibility (meaning each hand will cast its own shadow!), but can be changed to a single ray in settings
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Made handheld respect falloff/radius of lights, it should now look more similar to lights placed on the ground
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Made handheld properly interact with normal mapping
Bug Fixes:
- Fix 3d blocks being broken by 3d leave packs
- Fix max lights breaking above 1000
- Fix lighting being gone in LOD (Voxy/DH) chunks with Photon
- Fix GI flickering with TAA enabled with BSL
- Fix handheld not respecting main hand in skin settings
Supported shaders
- Photon (requires latest version from Github)
- BSL v10.1 (exact version)
Release made by @Essentuan
Changes
- Added photon patch (with world space reflections!)
- Eclipse shaders now have native support for Photonics
- Transparency support
- Added some new options to BSL and Photon
- Shader API
- Fast response times for RT (Photonics should now react almost instantly to world changes!)
- Rewritten config system + New light values/colors
- Fixes for some 3d blocks being black
- Fixes GI starting out as green
- A new
shader-patchesfolder in .minecraft - Fixes BSL10.1 compiler errors in the end
Supported shaders
- Photon (requires latest version from Github)
- Eclipse (requires latest version from Github)
- BSL v10.1 (exact version; TAA is broken!)
Release made by @Essentuan
Photonics 0.2.9 is here!
- Improved performance
- Added soft shadows
- Some bug fixes
Photonics 0.2.9 is here!
- Improved performance
- Added soft shadows
Photonics 0.2.8 is here!
- Improved lighting
- 3D block rendering is back!
- Configuration settings for 3D block rendering and raytraced light sources!
- Moved Photonics-Enable settings into BSL settings menu
- Fixed flickering issue in distant lighting
- Preparing stuff for supporting other shader packs!
- Iris 1.8.8 support
Photonics 0.2.7 is here!
- Photonics now extends the BSL lighting system, instead of replacing it (e.g. Rain Puddles are not working correctly)
- Handheld items now illuminate entities as well
- Many backend changes to prepare for the upcoming Complementary Shaders support
Photonics 0.2.6 is here!
- PBR support (Enable Advanced Materials and use a PBR resource pack, like Vanilla Pbr)
- Sun light now majorily contributes to indirect lighting
- Increased the indirect lighting intensity
- Grass doesn't look terrible anymore
- Temporarily removed "3D blocks"
Requires Iris 1.8.1 & BSL v8.2.09
Photonics 0.2.6 is here!
- PBR support (Enable Advanced Materials and use a PBR resource pack, like Vanilla Pbr)
- Sun light now majorily contributes to indirect lighting
- Increased the indirect lighting intensity
- Grass doesn't look terrible anymore
- Temporarily removed "3D blocks"
Requires Iris 1.7.3 & BSL v8.2.09
Photonics 0.2.5 is here!
- Support for Minecraft 1.21.1 & 1.20.1
- Shader settings can now be changed again
- Fixed bug where Redstone Lamps would emit light when turned off again, thanks @Cat-Gaming
- Fixed bug where Beacons would emit red light instead of red light, thanks @kimskaj
Photonics 0.2.4 is here!
- Support for Minecraft 1.21.1
- Entites are now properly lighted
- Photonics can be enabled and disabled
As always, I'm very excited to hear your feedback on my Twitter page
Photonics 0.2.3 is here!
- Changing shader settings don't require a restart anymore
- Fix for mod-breaking bug that leads to the game crashing when entering a world
New major release:
- Addition of Shadow Mapping (Entities cast shadows!)
- Render Distance increased to 15 chunks + Distant Horizons support)
- Bug fixes (Huge thanks to everyone who reported issues on Github)
This release adds colored, light emitting blocks that greatly increase the visual quality. Take a visit in the nether and be amazed by the new, highly dynamic lighting you can find there!
Photonics has transformed!
Photonics is not a standalone Graphics engine anymore. Instead it acts as a Raytracing extension to the fantastic Iris mod.
Currently supported shaderpacks:
- BSL v8.2.09
Note
Installed and enabled BSL with exact version is required. Once ingame, the shaderpack cannot be changed/deactivated.
